The soft-spoken, delightful, and fierce actor Dia Mirza also has a huge German influence in her life. Even though the ‘Rehnaa Hai Terre Dil Mein’ actor was born in Hyderabad, her father Frank Handrich, was a German artist.
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Dia’s mother Deepa, a Bengali interior designer, and Frank separated when Dia was only four-and-a-half years old. Frank died when she was nine. While Dia has taken her step-father Ahmed Mirza’s surname, she still is closely attached to her biological father’s side of the family.
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In an interview, the actor and social worker said that she wishes she had some of her father’s possessions. “All his belongings went to my step-brother who was born after he left,” reported Hindustan Times.
She further divulged how she finally made peace with the fact that the memories that she has with her late father are much more precious than his belongings.
“Some years ago, my step-brother came to Bombay to visit my mum and me, and I was showing him around the house. He walked into the corridor where I have lots of photographs, and there is one of me as a baby with my parents. At that moment, all the years of pain and baggage I was carrying, about wanting my father’s things, disappeared. I realized what I had was even more precious, which is my memories of him.”
Talking about her relationship with her father, she added, “I was very much attached to my father at the age of 4, he was my hero. In ‘Lage Raho Munna Bhai’, the shot where I am talking about how my father has lied to me in the cab with Jimmy (Shergil), on how disappointed I am with that lie, I say he is my Hero. That line came because I always perceived my father as a hero,” she was quoted as saying.
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Memories are indeed the greatest treasures and definitely more valuable than tangible items. We’re sure her father would be proud of his lovable daughter and the inspirational mother she has become to her son Avyaan.