A Suitable Boy Actress Tanya Maniktala Opens Up On Her "Idea Of Love"

"The kind of love I seek is one where you never give up," Tanya Maniktala wrote

Actress Tanya Maniktala, who is known for her work in the Netflix series A Suitable Boy, opened up about her "idea of love" in her piece for Humans Of Bombay. In the piece, Tanya Maniktala gave us all the details about her love life starting right from her first crush. Tanya shared that she had her first crush on a "stereotypical bad boy" when she was in 5th grade. "I live in the same neighborhood as I've always lived in; we'd go out to play and this group of boys would play football in our park. I was in the 5th grade when I saw this boy there-he was good looking and a stereotypical bad boy. I really liked him," Tanya wrote. "My best friend realised I was going to the park very often and figured out that I liked him. I was shy-so she'd take me to his house, ring the bell and make up some excuse to see him," she added. The actress then recalled how her best friend helped her in approaching her first crush by sending him a friend request on Facebook. "He had FB, so she sent him a friend request from my ID. She'd send messages on my behalf; he once replied, 'You never come up and talk to me.' I freaked out-I was too young! But yeah, he was my first and only crush for a while," she wrote. Tanya Maniktala also shared that "boys would avoid" her back in her teenage days as she had an elder brother. She shared how "this one guy" approached her through her best friend. "I have an older brother, so boys would avoid me because of that. But this one guy saw me at a friend's birthday party and asked my best friend if she could get me to talk to him. So the next day, when she told me, I was like, okay; I didn't think much of it," Tanya wrote. She went on to share how she got scolded by her mother for speaking to the guy on the phone in her bathroom. "He asked me, 'Can we be friends?' He took my number; we had a landline back then. But I couldn't have a guy calling me up; if my parents found out, I'd be gone! So when he called, I took the phone to my bathroom and called him back," Tanya Maniktala wrote. "My mom knew something fishy was happening; she knocked on the door and said, 'Who are you talking to?' I replied, 'Nobody!' When I came out and told her about the guy, she said, 'Papa ko batau kya?' (should I tell your father)," she added.