Suniel Shetty revealed that his Mana Shetty too had a similar mindset while recalling how he avoided succumbing to a flashy lifestyle. Suniel Shetty recalled the time when he joined the Hindi film industry and how he avoided the ‘occasional temptation to succumb to the allures of a flashy lifestyle’.
In his long post on Linkedin, Suniel Shetty revealed that his middle-class values ensured that he looked at most money decisions from a long-term lens. His wife Mana Shetty too had a similar mindset.
Today, I want to talk to you about my relationship with money. Growing up, my family had a very basic standard of living. We didn’t have a lot, just about enough. We definitely did not have the luxuries that we take for granted today.
However, my parents, through the way they lived and worked, taught my sisters & I the importance of saving and building for the future. I think frugality was our default setting, and has remained so.
Even after Dad started to do better in life, there were no major changes in our lifestyle. He had already gone beyond his means to give us the best education he could afford at the time, so the only real change was we moved homes,” he wrote.
He continued, “When I look back now, I realise how my parents were clear about their approach to money. They saw to it that whatever excess they had, went into uplifting their children’s lives through knowledge and experiences, growing the business and helping the community.