Sumeet Vyas gets chatty on impending parenthood and quarantine

MUMBAI: Sumeet Vyas and Ekta Kaul tied the knot in 2018. The couple recently made the announcement about embracing parenthood. Photos of the two took over the internet. Sumeet spoke to a media portal about quarantine, spending time with Ekta, and more.

Ask him how has the almost parenthood bit treating you with you guys being home, he says, 'That is perhaps the only good part for me, the positive bit as we might say it. We are both getting to spend this time together.'

On working from home and precautions they have been taking, he says, 'I have been working from home. Working on a couple of scripts that I have been writing. Generally, no one comes home and we have stopped calling friends over. Even people who live right next to us in the next building, we aren't calling them over because it is better to be safe. We have no option but to spend all of our time together' (laughs).

Ask him about household chores and he adds, 'So both of us had sort of divided the housework in the past. What I have done is there is a boy who I have called home to live with us. Obviously she can't work or strain herself. So before I get cranky, I thought we come to this.'

He adds, 'This has been you know what can be called a humbling experience. It is just trying to be a little more grateful for what you have rather than cribbing about what you don't have and what you should have. So many people are really struggling right now so the fact that we have a roof to live in and have food to eat, we should be thankful for that.'

On asking if the feeling of fatherhood has become overwhelming, he says, 'Not yet. I don't think it has completely sunk in yet, what is about to come and what is about to change. I think that will only happen once I experience it. So far whatever I have been feeling are borrowed experiences from friends and Instagram of things new dads go through. And most of them are horror stories because they tell me oh you have no idea, so I am just letting it sink in as it comes.'

Their pregnancy came as a sweet surprise. Ask him if this was a conscious decision, and the actor says, 'This is very private so I didn't feel the need to share it for the longest time. All we were talking about is Corona and people dying, and so we thought if people knew they would at least talk about something positive. So we decided that we'll tell people now and we won't be bothered by the death tolls so that's a good thing. Probably one good news we can share with people in these times.'

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