Pankaj Tripathi & wife Mridula’s real-life love story is nothing less than a fairytale-like romance.
All these years, Pankaj Ji never failed to praise and give credit to his wife for supporting him emotionally & financially.
During an interview with shethepeople, the Mirzapur actor opened up on his struggles and how Mridula helped him in his early days before his career kicked off. Not only that but also how he never considers it a big deal to accept that his wife was the ‘breadwinner’.
The actor asks, “What I said was the truth, why should anybody hesitate from admitting a truth, whether it’s on national TV or any public forum? And why should people praise you so much for admitting what is the truth?”
Agreeing with her husband, Mridula says, “In a male-dominated society it rarely happens that a man would admit his wife ‘earned’ while he was struggling to establish his career.” She adds, “Women are known to do the work, but they are never acknowledged. That one sentence of acknowledgment makes me my family, and my daughter so happy.”
Continuing it further, she says, “If I was earning the money, he was making sure that there was food on the table to eat. He was looking after all the household work. We were two bicycle wheels both balancing each other out.” She goes on to say, “It is one sentence that makes every female very happy.”
Meanwhile, back in 2019, while talking to The Better India, calling his better half “the man of the house”, Pankaj Tripathi added, “If you ask me about my struggle, I don’t have any sad details like sleeping on a footpath or starving for days. That’s because my wife, Mridula, had taken over the entire responsibility of the house. In fact, I tell everyone that she is the man of the house.”
How can anyone not fall in love with someone like Pankaj Tripathi?