Diana Penty Recalls Horrific Childhood Incident Of Facing Harassment In Mumbai Trains: It Scared Me…

Diana Penty Recalls Horrific Incident

In a conversation with Hauterfly, the actress was asked if she had ever experienced inappropriate touching while travelling on a bus or in a crowded place, to this, Diana responded, “I think every girl in Bombay has gone through this. To go to college, St Xavier’s, I used to take the train—the central line from Byculla to VT—and then walk to college. There’s catcalling, and people try to elbow you. It became a part of daily life. I was a very shy, underconfident, conscious and awkward girl. I would go into a shell. It would scare me. I didn’t have the confidence to elbow back.”

Further, she added, “It scarred me. You’re a child, and if people keep telling you, ‘Oh, you’re so skinny, you don’t eat?’ And some aunties would go up to my mother and say this. She used to get so irritated—like why wouldn’t I feed my child? As a child, you start becoming conscious of the fact that you’re too skinny. It was awful.”

Professional Front

On the work front, Diana Penty can be seen in Detective Sherdil, a quirky mystery-comedy that also features Diljit Dosanjh, Boman Irani, Chunky Panday, and Banita Sandhu in lead roles. The film is now streaming on ZEE5. She also has Section 84, a legal thriller headlined by Amitabh Bachchan in her pipeline.