Bharti Singh celebrates her 37^th birthday today and has become a prominent comedienne on television with her hilarious acts and spontaneous anchoring. However, her journey in the TV industry has not been a bed of roses. Bharti, who is currently hosting the dance reality show Dance Deewane with her husband Haarsh Limbachiyaa opened up about receiving taunts from her extended family on 'how girls succeed in Mumbai'.

Bharti opened up after a contestant from Haryana narrated her story on India’s Best Dancer and said that she faced opposition from her village as quoted by Janta Ka Reporter in 2020. It quoted her saying on the show, "Today, your story has pushed me into flashback mode. When I was preparing to come to Bombay after I got selected in a comedy reality show. Our relatives boycotted us. They said, ‘she doesn’t have a father. What’s her profession? She makes people laugh. She wouldn’t get married. We know how girls succeed in Mumbai.’ My mummy was a single mother. My father died when I was two years old.”

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Earlier in an interview with an online portal, Bharti had said, “We were very poor and my mother struggled for us; she used to work as a cook in different houses. When I got selected for Laughter Challenge, my relatives were against me coming to Mumbai. The mindset in the village was that every director in the film industry are like Bollywood villains and they take advantage. Uneducated people in the village think that girls can make a name for themselves only when they do a wrong thing. But my mother was very clear that she would take me to Mumbai as she didn't want me to think later in life that I got a chance but she didn't allow me."

Meanwhile, on the work front, Bharti has returned to shoot for The Kapil Sharma Show along with co-stars Krushna Abhishek and Kiku Sharda and had shared a selfie video on Instagram stories with the two. In the video clip, Kiku and Krushna said that the comedy show, hosted by Kapil Sharma, is ‘back’. Kapil had taken a break from the show for spending time with his wife Ginni Chatrath, their daughter Anayra and newborn son Trishaan.

(Source: Janta Ka Reporter/Rediff)