Aditya Narayan is now a proud father of a baby girl

Aditya Narayan shares  his excitement with Subhash K Jha

Congratulation to you and your wife, Aditya?

Aditya Narayan: Thank You, Sir. We’ve been blessed with  a baby girl on 24 February. Shweta had to undergo a ‘C’ section. I was with her  in the hospital  for almost a week. Now we are back home. We need  all your blessings.

How does it feel?

Aditya Narayan: Laxmi ghar ayee hain. God is too kind. We have named our daughter Twisha.

Wah, who chose that name?

Aditya Narayan: Me. I was  the only one in the family rooting for  a girl right  from the start. Twisha is a Sanskrit word. It mean  ‘Rays Of Light’. My father’s name  Udit, my name Aditya and now my daughter Twisha  are  all light-related .Twisha  is almost an anagram  of my wife’s name Shweta. A lot of thought has  gone into the  naam-karan, Sir.

So how does it feel  to be  a father?

Aditya Narayan: Sir bahot achcha lag raha. I’ve never felt this way before, so  I don’t  have a comparative emotion. It’s  a mixture of excitement,  nervousness, joy…. I don’t know  if I’ve shared this with you. But on my 30^th birthday I  had a dream, which didn’t feel  like  a dream. It felt like a premonition. I  saw this my wife Shweta  in a hospital holding a  baby girl. I went up to her as she smiled with  the baby.  I  decided after that  premonition to marry Shweta, the sooner the better.

Have  you taken  paternity leave?

Aditya Narayan: Of course, Sir. Pehli baar zindagi mein do-teen show ko na keh diya.  I am a little  restlessness because  the body is  not used to  being without work.  I  had some shows locked  in for  later,  a few months from now.  But I had decided to keep this  period free for my child. Besides looking after Shweta  and Twisha, we are also moving into our  new home this month. I’ve to  pretty much take care of all the shifting of home.Shweta is busy doing motherly things.

A happily hectic time for  you?

Aditya Narayan: It’s not been  an easy time for me.I had Covid twice. In spite of that I was  working non-stop.Now is my time to be home with my baby, to meditate

How has your father (singer Udit Narayan) reacted to his  grand daughter?

Aditya Narayan: Both my parents  are very excited. Papa is elated. Actually it has not sunk  in properly. Even when he came to see Twisha in the hospital he would look at her and then look away . After this aankh-micholi went on for  4 days  I  picked up Twisha and put her in Papa’s lap. They looked so cute together.

It  sounds  like  a Sooraj Barjatya  film?

Aditya Narayan: Sir, Twisha is  so lucky.She has  grandmothers and great  grandmothers  in her life.  I am so blessed to have  all these wonderful women in my life.