Suniel Shetty opens up about becoming a grand dad

The arrival of Athiya Shetty's baby girl, Evaarah, has brought immense joy to the Shetty household, with Suniel Shetty wholeheartedly embracing his new role as a grandfather. The actor's eyes light up as he talks about the little bundle of joy, for the first time with us. "That's all Mana (Shetty, wife) and I were looking for. It is the best feeling in the world." he says. As he settles into his new role, Suniel shares his thoughts on grandfatherhood. "It is a feeling of bliss. There couldn’t be a better or a bigger feeling than this. They always say, ‘Mul se sut pyaara (interest is far, far more exciting when you receive it compared to the capital).”

‘Now the biggest excitement in my life is my granddaughter’

With his schedule now revolving around his grandchild, Suniel, who was recently seen in

Nadaaniyan

, talks about managing his time with the baby. "Life is not hectic. That's the way my life was always. I work and I come back home, and I do that with a lot more excitement now. I look forward to coming back home and spending time with Mana and the baby. The biggest excitement in my life now is that child. And now I want to do everything with my granddaughter that I probably missed out on with Athiya and my son Ahan because I was constantly working. I was on call 24X7 with my work. Of course, I manage my time to the best of my ability. But today I need to do more. Evaarah is Athiya 2.0 for me."

‘The beauty of shooting for Hera Pheri after 25 years is that it doesn’t feel like it’s been so long.”

On the work front, Suniel is currently shooting for the third instalment of Hera Pheri. Ask him how it feels to reunite with Akshay Kumar and Paresh Rawal, and he says, “The beauty of that is that we never felt that it’s been 25 years. Shooting for it didn’t feel that 25 years have gone by. It's just that we are looking different and now we have different get ups, but otherwise, we're the same. Everybody is the same, right from the producer to the director. We are just going to miss Om Puri dearly. He was one of the pillars of Hera Pheri 1.”

‘Nobody else can play those characters in Hera Pheri’

The actor who reprises his role of Shyaam in the movie, doesn’t reveal much about the plot, but he adds, “Even when we were shooting, it didn’t seem like we were playing a character. Nobody else can play those characters.” There were rumours of Kartik Aaryan stepping into Akshay’s shoes for the sequel. Bring that up and Suniel says, “Whoever else was coming in was never supposed to replace anybody. He was coming as a new character, but now the makers have gone back to the old script and it is Hera Pheri 10 times more fun”.