‘Blocked me on WhatsApp’: Bhagyashri Borse says mom cut contact for 6 months for doing films

5 min readHyderabadJul 27, 2026 07:06 PM IST Before she was Bharati in Lenin, before the packed theatres and the overnight recognition, Bhagyashri Borse was a girl from Chhatrapati Sambhaji Nagar whose family wanted nothing to do with the film industry. Lenin, starring Bhagyashri with Akhil Akkineni, has emerged as a success at the box office. In an interaction with college students on the Honest Town Hall series, the actor opened up about the months of silence from her mother, the childhood incident that taught her the value of money, and why she believes every woman should have a bank account of her own.When a student asked how she dealt with her family’s resistance to her career choice, Bhagyashri Borse did not soften the answer. Every single person in her family said no. “I called my m