Chhoriyan Chali Gaon's Surabhi Mehra of Chinki Minki opens up about an accident which left her paralysed; says 'I told Samriddhi to take care of our parents'
Surabhi Mehra
, the Agni Pariksha wasn't just a test- it was a chance to rewrite the ending to a painful chapter in her life. Before starting her task to eliminate the transportation Sankat from the village, she shared a deeply personal story.
In college, a dance injury left Surabhi paralysed, with the damage so severe that she was just minutes away from losing her life. 'I told Samriddhi to take care of our parents,' she recalled, believing she might not survive. Miraculously, doctors saved her just two minutes before it would have been too late.
That memory, full of pain and gratitude, gave her the drive to push through the challenge with unshakable focus.
Every step was a reminder of how far she had come.
Earlier, her twin Samriddhi had faced her own physical struggle in the Agni Pariksha, collapsing mid-task but still completing her mission to remove the Krishi Sankat.
Together, the sisters' performances became a shared testament to survival, courage, and love. They stood as proof that life's harshest blows can forge the strongest bonds and that when you rise, you never rise alone.
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Recently, in one of the previous episodes, Samriddhi got emotional while revealing a deeply personal chapter from her early childhood for the very first time. She shared that she didn't even know she had a twin sister, called Surabhi, for the first 2-3 years of her life. Growing up in an orthodox family, the twins were kept apart, and it was only after their mother fought back against the family's restrictions that Samriddhi met her sister for the first time at the age of 5.
Since then, the bond between the two has remained unshakable.
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