TLI Staff
New Delhi: Pooja Banerjee who impressed everyone with her portrayal of Nivedita Basu in Kasautii Zindagii Kay is now winning hearts with her latest role of Rhea in Kumkum Bhagya. The actress got married to national level swimmer Sandeep Sejwal in February 2018.
Pooja who has been married for almost 3 years now, recently revealed how she was advised against tying the knot as there is a myth that married women get lesser challenging roles than single women.
However, one look at Pooja Banerjee’s body of work would reveal that the actress has done some of her best roles most marriage from web shows like Kehne Ko Humsafar Hain, Dil Ho To Hai to big shows like Kasautii and Kumkum Bhagya, Pooja Banerjee.
Believing that marriage and companionship is a need and a part of life and not a retirement sentence for a career-centric woman, Pooja Banerjee says, “I have grown up watching my mother juggle her career and her household tasks in such an effortless manner that her will power and sheer hard work inspired me to achieve and have all I want in life. After making it as an actress when I wanted to get married, my family was against it with the fear that it might lead to loosing out career opportunities. I somehow convinced my parents that getting married will never come in the way of me working, and if I am good enough and if I have talent and potential, I will get work. Well, I have been married for 3 years now and I have both, a flourishing career and a household too!”
“Most of us think, it’s too much for a woman to have and seamlessly handle both, a career and a household. Personally, I despise it and I support women with ambition and wanting to have a career even after getting married. I try to motivate all the girls out there who think marriage is a tag that implies an end to their career. Marriage is only a part of life and not a retirement sentence,” she said.