A minor girl in Pune has revealed she was gang-raped by four persons for six months, on the college premises. The four have been arrested, two of whom are minors.
Sai Pallavi frequently grabs headlines courtesy of the rumors surrounding her personal life. Link-up rumors, relationship gossip, and alleged marriage plans—a lot has been frequently conjectured about the actress. While she has mostly silenced all the naysayers on matters such as these, there was once a time she bared her heart out on her idea of marriage.
Back in 2020, during an interview with The News Minute, Sai Pallavi shed light on the certain family traditions she is supposed to follow when it comes to her marriage. For the uninformed, the actress belongs to the Badaga community, based out of the Nilgiris district in Tamil Nadu. The Badagas are known for their vibrant culture and unique traditions, which stand out from the rest.
Speaking along the same lines, Sai Pallavi mentioned that she has always been taught while growing up that she must marry a man from the same Badaga community.
Sai added that while cross-community weddings have happened in her family, most of such couples live outside their village. In fact, she also spoke about her own parents, who live away in Coimbatore and thus are not affected by what people think of their cross-community marriage.
She said, “I’ve been told that when I grow older, I have to marry a Badaga. A lot of people have chosen to marry outside the community, but then they are not living in the hatti in Kotagiri. My dad and mom live in Coimbatore, so they don’t have the pressure of what others think about them.”
Sai Pallavi went on to reveal what happens when a person from the Badaga community ends up marrying someone from a different clan.
She mentioned how such couples with cross-community weddings are alienated from the rest, and the people in their native village start fringing them from any communal events, including attending weddings, funerals, and other social events.
Towards the conclusion of the revelation, Sai Pallavi also reminisced about the candid discussion she had with her father on this topic. She mentioned that her father was naive and did not want her to break community rules. The actress recalled explaining to her parents that she finds such a traditional custom disturbing.
In her words, “My dad is very naive, and he just said, but this happens everywhere, that everyone should marry within the community and that it is about culture. I told him that for the sake of culture or whatever, you can’t blackmail a child into choosing what you want. I told him I find this disturbing.”
On the work front, Sai Pallavi would be next seen in the Nitesh Tiwari directorial Ramayana, co-starring Ranbir Kapoor. She is also part of the Tamil biographical film Amaran, starring Sivakarthikeyan.
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Dasha is surely making sure to give importance to her mental health. The singer recently opened up to People magazine during this year’s People’s Choice Country Awards about navigating her newfound fame.
She conversed with the aforementioned publication on the red carpet on September 26, Wednesday and said, “It’s been up and down these past few months; I have had to learn how to balance my mental health as a human mixed with being an artist.”
She continued, “I’ve had a pretty busy schedule and I’ve had to learn, ‘Oh, I need to make time to go play pickleball and go ride my horses because that’s just as important as going and writing that song.’”
The songstress shared that she had the epiphany about prioritizing her “heart, my health and my soul.” She learned that one is still a human at the end of the day and one cannot let themselves “get lost in the image.”
She expressed being grateful that her hard work paid off and described her attendance at the awards show as “surreal.”
The singer shared that if someone had told her a year prior that she would be at the Opry attending the aforementioned award show with five nominations, she would tell that person that they were lying to her. She expressed her gratefulness to her fans and the “country community.”
Dasha has been nominated for New Artist, Best Music Video, Best Female Song, and Song of the Year for her hit track titled Austin.
While previously talking to the outlet in April, she talked about the process that went down while penning Austin. She stated that she was sad in that entire situation and she had a lot of anger to get out. She mentioned really desiring to write a track channeling it because she needed some assistance in that area.
The Even Cowboys Cry vocalist shared that the guitar was played by Adam Windler on the song and the rest of the track flew effortlessly.
This year’s People Choice Country Awards aired from Grand Ole Opry House in Nashville on September 26 on NBC and Peacock.
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