Nyra Banerjee: The ukulele is an extension of me

During the COVID-19

pandemic

people have been taking to all kinds of interesting things – from

cooking

to picking up new languages, painting and more. And '

Excuse Me Madam

’ actress Nyra Banerjee has also got something that has been taking up her time – she’s been learning the

ukulele

during this time away from work. It's been a long while and the multi-lingual

actress

seems to have picked up the ropes quite well.

Talking about this, she says, “The ukulele is popularly known as a Hawaiian Guitar. During my

travels

to quite a few countries, I would always find someone playing the ukulele somewhere. It was so lovely to hear and it would always fascinate me. I would just sit rooted listening for as long as they played it. Back here I heard a few people playing

Bollywood

songs on the ukulele and it felt that they have added so much to the

song

. I got hooked to the instrument and I bought one long back, owing to my schedule I was not able to learn it. Now that we have all the time in the world, I started learning the ukulele and I’m grateful to God that I did’. Its soulful, soothing and is now an extension of me."