When Sushmita Sen, recalled of her first visit to Dubai
When Sushmita Sen, recalled of her first visit to Dubai
Sushmita Sen, former Miss Universe, actress and entrepreneur recalled her first arrival in Dubai.
Her mother had just moved to the city. At the time around, the World Trade Centre stood as its most iconic building.
Adding she saw, in the years to come, what they hailed the Middle East, Dubai, as Manhattan. And then from that Manhattan, it emerged as the original Dubai downtown.
She has been a witness to city’s dramatic evolvement just as she has. Besides staging comeback in gripping crime thriller Aarya she’s a part-owner and brand ambassador for Dubai-based luxury jewelry brand established in 1999.
She further went on to add she has seen water turn into land and have man-made islands come up before me… You look at Dubai, and you realise that you don’t have to look at an outcome basis, the origin. It’s what you’re capable of building.”
That mindset resonates deeply with Sushmita Sen. The single parent to two lovely children has continuously reinvented herself—as an actress a mother, and now, an entrepreneur.
Her Dubai-based luxury jewellery venture, named after her daughter, is proof of that evolution.
She added her mother [Subra Sen] lives here. Then she came up with Renee Jewellers, and she and her partner, Neeraj Uncle, have made such a huge success, not just here, but in all GCC countries. So for her, this is home now.”
Earlier this week , she wasn’t walking a red carpet—she was celebrating healthcare heroes. Sen was the guest of honour at the Aster Guardians Global Nursing Awards, where she paid tribute to what she calls the “unsung heroes” of our time.
“It’s an honour to be here and do this, but the credit purely lies with Aster… she was getting these numbers from them that were just staggering. Like 25,000 applied the first time around, and this year, 105,000 nurses. That’s amazing.”
Healthcare hits close to home. “Nurses hold a very special place in my heart. She looks at it from a medical standpoint, and also look at it from an emotional standpoint… Being a nurse is like being a mum. It’s a thankless job. At the end of the day, you keep on doing what you do for the love of what you do, or the people, or just the honourable position you are in.”
She adds a powerful message to women in the profession: “You’re women. You have to take care of yourself… Please become nurses. This world requires it. As much as she loves a good doctor, the doctor comes for a procedure and leaves. You heal with a nurse.
At 50, Sen is also healing perceptions around age and femininity on screen. As the bold lead in Arya, a crime drama likened to The Godfather, she plays a female version of Michael Corleone.
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