It’s a lowkey Lohri for Kamya and Shalabh

PActor Kamya Panjabi has made it a point to take out time from her busy schedule and be with her in-laws in Delhi for her first Lohri after getting married to Shalabh Dang. She says that the pandemic has played spoilsport to all other plans. “There are no special plans for Lohri, this year. We don’t want to take any chances with my in-laws. There are kids too. We will have a family gathering, do the pooja; that’s it. I am already in Delhi. I’d celebrate it in a big way before I got married. We are hoping that from next year we will have those big celebrations again,” Panjabi, 41, shares. The actor, who has a 10-year-old daughter, Aara, had to leave her in Mumbai, as she didn’t want to take any risk while travelling. “She won’t be with me on this Lohri. It’s too cold in Delhi, pollution is there too, and on top of that, Covid-19. I obviously didn’t want to take a chance,” she adds. Her husband is in the healthcare sector, and is busy round the clock. She adds that like Diwali last year, Lohri, too, is dicey when it comes to celebrating it together. She reveals, “You never know when an emergency could come. We’ll see how it goes.” The one thing she feels most bad about is her daughter not being able to celebrate these festivals due to the pandemic. “I feel guilty, that she is missing out on all this. How much will they remain hooked to their laptops, television or ipad, online calls… kab tak birthday parties aise hoti rahengi video calls pe? But we can’t do anything about it. I just buy her gifts, that’s all I can do. But children are educated too, and understand. Being kids, they get frustrated though,” says Panjabi.

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