Bhumi Pednekar opens up about losing her father to Cancer, "We saw him through prolonged sickness"!

At times losing a close of can create a huge void and it is really difficult to overcome that space. In a recent interview with Pinkvilla, Bhumi Pednekar talked about losing her father to cancer and credits that unfortunate event for her coming of age.

Bhumi Pednekar has practically stood on her feet without any filmy background and proved herself repeatedly. She was just 18 and her almost identical sister Samiksha just 15 when their mother took the command of the family in her hands. She further talked about seeing her father suffer through a prolonged illness. The 30-year-old actress shared how they dealt with his death as a family.

We were quite young. I was 18, Samiksha was probably 15 when we lost our dad due to cancer. We saw him through prolonged sickness and really suffer a lot. Obviously, losing a parent is never easy and I had a wonderful father. He was just a father. We miss him every day but my mom is made of something else, she really got us together. I think just us as a family, we went into warrior mode post that.

- Bhumi Pednekar

She further talked about her struggling days when she was an assistant film director with Yash Raj Films and revealed how her family needed to get their act together.

I start working, 10 times harder than I would. We both just grew up and realized that s*** is getting real, and we need to get our act together. The two years were a mess but we gathered ourselves really fast. Today when we look back, we wonder how we survived those days, how we got through it, but it happened.

- Bhumi Pednekar

Bhumi was recently seen in a brief but pivotal role opposite Vicky Kaushal in Bhoot – Part One: The Haunted Ship. 

Meanwhile, on the work front, 2020 looks very exciting for Bhumi as she will be seen along with Akshay Kumar in Durgavati and Ekta Kapoor’s Dolly Kitty Aur Woh Chamakte Sitaare. She will start shooting for Badhaai Do along with Karan Johar’s magnum opus, Takht!