Actress Ruhi Singh: I made my dad join Instagram so that he can attend my live sessions

On Father's Day today,

actress Ruhi Singh

of '

Calendar Girls

' fame tells us how she made her father join social media, and that has helped her stay connected with him during lockdown. Her father holds and Engineering degree. So, Ruhi says that he learned everything quickly and is now an avid user of technology, particularly social media. She says, "Every year, I buy an iPhone for my father. Initially, it was a bit difficult for him to understand how it works but then he learned everything. I made him join Instagram recently because he wanted to attend my live sessions (laughs)."

Ruhi Singh video calls her father every day from Mumbai

She adds, "We video call each other every day because I live in Mumbai and he is in Jaipur. It feels so nice that through technology, we are able to stay so connected. The idea behind me making him join the social media was to stay connected and make him see my work. On Instagram, he follows me and the people I have worked with. It was actually quite cool to be able to teach him how to use social media. All of our lives, our parents have taught us so much; they have been our biggest teachers. Now, it got reverse. And I was pleasantly surprised to see him learning everything in no time.My father has been the biggest gift god has given to me. He is my soul. I am thankful to him for giving me the freedom to choose my career and things that I wanted to do in my life.”