Rahul Dev Speaks Out About Struggles Of Single Parenting

In a new interview, actor Rahul Dev, the Indian actor popular for his villainous roles in films, has opened up about his struggles with parenting that he faced as a widower and a single father. The actor raised his son, Siddharth Dev, on his own following his wife Rina Dev’s demise in 2009.

Rahul, who has predominantly worked in Hindi, Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, and Malayalam film industries, married Rina in 1998. The couple had been together for almost 18 years and married for more than a decade, before Rina passed away after her struggle with cancer in 2009. The actor raised his son on his own.

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Rahul Dev, who had appeared in the Salman Khan-hosted Colors celebrity reality show Bigg Boss season 10, shared the insecurities he felt while he tried to be both a mother and a father to his son. In the interview with Connect FM Canada, he further added that being widowed is way different in real life than in reel life, and is not as easy as it is shown in films.

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"Parenting is not easy at all. Women have a big hand in raising children, the way they understand children, probably because it comes out of them. The kind of patience they have for children, I tried a lot, but there were times when I would lose my cool, my frame of mind. I had to try to be both mom and dad. When I would go to parent-teacher meetings at school, I would see mostly mothers. Rarely I would meet one guy but his wife would be there. At that time, I would feel a sense of deep insecurity. I would feel where are the men,” the actor said.

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He added, "It's very painful. A lot of it I don't want to remember. A lot of it I would not wish on anyone, that kind of situation. It looks easy in films, so many times films show that someone became a widower. But starting again is not easy at all."

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Recently, the actor also spoke about his relationship with actor and model Mugdha Godse. Dev and Godse have been in a relationship for over eight years now. He mentioned having doubts regarding the relationship as he thought that the age gap between the duo is ‘unfair’ and that Godse belongs to “another generation” as she is 14 years younger to him. “She is young. I have just crossed 50 and she is yet to touch 40. So, I used to feel, ‘Is this relationship unfair?'”

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