for amyra dastur the pandemic has been all about family and no not just her own the actress also went all out to help underprivileged families in the city in an exclusive interview with bombay times amyra tells us how shes been worrying every day for her doctor father about moving back in with parents during the pandemic maa ke haath ka khana putting on weight and more excerptshow has the pandemic been so far for you and your familymy father is a doctor and he was going to the hospital everyday so it was extremely stressful and scary for us hes 67 so i was very concerned every day was filled with anxiety until he got his vaccine it would hurt even more when i saw people being irresponsible and not wearing masks hes my hero i was adamant that he should stay home and he said this was his job he couldnt ask his staff to come to work if he didnt go himself mom says i get my stubbornness from my father and im proud of that now hes always been my strength and now hes my inspiration as wellwhile everyone has had their struggles during the pandemic theres definitely been a silver lining for all what was it for youi got to go back and live with my parents again i moved out five years ago so now i felt like i was a teenager again mom coming into my room without knocking no privacy very invasive personal questions i dont want to encourage her but i missed this stuff ma ke haath ka khaana was the highlight for me i put on four kgs because of her and of course no gym i feel extremely lucky and grateful for how i was able to spend my lockdown it made me look at all the rubbish in my house and really realise its the little things in life that make me happy i realised i didnt need so many materialistic things and i put that money that i would use to shop into charities to help people the biggest thing i realised is that one needs to invest in people theyre the ones who will take us forward giving back to society is the only way to lift our country upwhat do you feel about the current pandemic situationhonestly we need to learn to deal with the situation better we cant keep locking down like this people have stopped listening because they cant afford to not work or are frustrated because they stayed home and just need to get out now the pictures weve seen of manali and dharamshala people maskless no social distancing prove my point i remember talking to my house help about why people cant stay home and then she explained saying there are families of six or seven members whove been jobless staying in one little room waiting for the lockdown to lift theyre so frustrated in this state that theyd rather