Kriti Sanon recalls celebrating Holi with ‘pakka rang, gulal, kichad’ and what not

For Kriti Sanon, this Holi is all the more colourful and sweeter for various reasons. To begin with, her latest film, Luka Chuppi, has been a huge success at the box office and continues to garner praise and that has added “to the sweetness”, as she puts it. Then, she has a packed 2019 with three films slated to hit theatres. Besides work, it’s after a long time that Kriti will be celebrating the festival with her family who have come from Delhi to Mumbai.

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“The sweetness is going on since Bareilly Ki Barfi (2017)... I can’t describe how overwhelmed I feel. The response for Luka Chuppi has been amazing not just from the critics but from the audiences’ as well. People have watched the film with their families living up to the film’s ‘saparivaar’ idea,” says an excited Kriti, as she talks to us from Karjat, where she is shooting for her next, Panipat.

Switch the conversation to Holi celebrations this year, and Kriti can’t contain her happiness as her parents are with her. “They have come down from Delhi and it’s after quite some time that I will be having fun during Holi, together with my parents and sister, I am excited, to celebrate ‘sapari-vaar’,” says Kriti, adding that her family has brought along “dabbas full of gujiyas and I can’t wait to finish them (laughs). I love gujiyas — this full-on Punjabi can’t do without sweets. ”

Going down memory lane, the Bollywood actor recalls how Holi celebration in her early childhood and teen years used to follow a set pattern along with her sister Nupur Sanon. “Our prep would start a day before by filling water balloons. The day of Holi would start with both of us [Nupur and I] applying coconut oil on our face and hair before playing with pakka rang, gulal, kichad and what not! Nupur and I, along with our gang of 15 to 20 people in our colony in Delhi, would team up and throw people in a puddle and enjoy rain dance, too,” shares Kriti, adding that celebrations won’t be complete without “gorging on gujiyas and pakoras with green chutney. And then, taking off colours would take another two hours.”

However, now that she has moved base to Mumbai and become an actor, things have somewhat changed. But Kriti says that doesn’t stop her from playing with colours. “The only change is that herbal colours have now replaced pakka rang and I can’t play for long hours. Also, now I have to take care of my skin and make sure the colours does not stay [for long] as I might be shooting the next day. But coconut oil is still the constant,” says Kriti wishing that this year, Holi ushers in lots of happiness and good health for everyone.

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