{"id":290964,"date":"2025-04-26T13:25:04","date_gmt":"2025-04-26T13:25:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/26\/madhuri-dixits-husband-dr-nene-rebelled-against-conservative-parents-by-getting-ploughed-on-alcohol-in-college-frat-life-shaped-who-i-was\/"},"modified":"2025-04-26T13:25:04","modified_gmt":"2025-04-26T13:25:04","slug":"madhuri-dixits-husband-dr-nene-rebelled-against-conservative-parents-by-getting-ploughed-on-alcohol-in-college-frat-life-shaped-who-i-was","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/26\/madhuri-dixits-husband-dr-nene-rebelled-against-conservative-parents-by-getting-ploughed-on-alcohol-in-college-frat-life-shaped-who-i-was\/","title":{"rendered":"Madhuri Dixit\u2019s husband Dr Nene rebelled against \u2018conservative\u2019 parents by \u2018getting ploughed\u2019 on alcohol in college: \u2018Frat life shaped who I was\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Madhuri Dixit\u2019s husband, Dr Sriram Nene<\/strong><\/a>, is the son of first-generation Indian immigrants in the United States. He said that his \u2018conservative\u2019 parents gave him two career options; he could either become a doctor or an engineer. Dr Nene became a cardiovascular surgeon after years of rigorous training, but there were times when he\u2019d wonder why he was putting in such hard work and energy. His first interest, he said, was always technology. Dr Nene now works as a healthcare professional specialising in tech, and in various interviews posted on his YouTube channel, he has discussed his early days.<\/p>\n

He said, \u201cMy parents were very conservative. They didn\u2019t have a lot of latitude, mainly because they didn\u2019t have backup systems.\u201d In a conversation with YouTuber Ranveer Allahbadia, also shared on his YouTube channel, Dr Nene said, \u201cMy parents are conservative teetotalers, and then, when I went to college in the Midwest, people drank like fish and did everything. I was a part of a fraternity, and it shaped who I was to some degree. It changed the way you behaved, it gave you a depth, and it also took away some of the hindrances. As far as alcohol and all that<\/a><\/strong>, we all got ploughed once in a while, right?\u201d<\/p>\n

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Also read \u2013 Madhuri Dixit\u2019s in-laws \u2018were not happy\u2019 when Dr Nene decided to quit job as heart surgeon, move back to India: \u2018My parents weren\u2019t warm to this\u2019<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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In a separate video posted on the INK Talk YouTube channel, Dr Nene recalled starting a software company in his teens, but not getting the support he needed from his parents. He said, \u201cI had a software company when I was 14, and my Maharashtrian parents said, \u2018You either become a doctor or an engineer, or we won\u2019t pay for it\u2019. As first generation immigrants, they didn\u2019t know any better. I dutifully did not go to Stanford or Berkeley, even though I would\u2019ve gotten in everywhere, and I went to a med programme in Washington. What I found, time and again, is that I could come in, in the nick of time, with milimetres and miliseconds, and save lives. It was very rewarding, because you would see patients on death\u2019s door, come back.\u201d<\/p>\n

He also opened up about his decision to quit his thriving practice and move to India along with Madhuri. He said, \u201cThe problem was, when you looked at what I did, the most I could operate on was three to five patients a day, 2000 consults a year, 500 patients a year. When I came to India, there were 7 billion people in the world. But I made a choice in 2011, when I was the managing director of a hospital and a partner in a group, and when I told them that I was leaving to do start-ups in India, they all looked at me like I was crazy. My middle-class Maharashtrian friends were like, \u2018What are you doing? You\u2019re every Indian\u2019s dream, and now you\u2019re walking away from uncertainty\u2019. Fortunately, it all worked out.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dr Nene\u2019s parents remained skeptical of his decision to move to India. \u201cMy parents initially weren\u2019t warm to this and when they saw what I had done with some of the start-ups, they wanted to write cheques,\u201d he recalled. Madhuri quit the film industry at the peak of her career when she married Dr Nene in 1999 and moved to the US. She resumed her career in the mid-2000s, and Dr Nene followed some years later.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n