Actor Radhika Madan connects with us on call from Mumbai, while her elder brother Arjun Madan joins in from Toronto (Canada) for a Bhai Dooj special interview. What follows is a fun banter. Radhika starts by telling us her fondest memories of the festival from previous years.

“He has just moved back to Toronto, this year. Raksha Bandhan and Bhai Dooj both come with a lot of nok-jhonk, with me asking for money and doing the teeka,” she says, and adds that both of them fast until the rituals get done. However, she laughs as she reveals, “I wish I could say I wait till he is up, it’s usually him who waits.”

Arjun, who had completed his engineering course in Toronto, is now there with his wife, and planning to start a business. He admits missing being in India on such festivals. “Ever since high school, it has been tough getting the family together. So, we have found our ways of celebrating festivals,” he says.

Radhika, 25, spills the beans on the virtual bhai dooj. “Video calls happen, but since we are in different time zones, for the past many years, I have been tying him a rakhi and doing the teeka before he leaves for Toronto,” she says.

Radhika is all praise for Arjun, and calls him the coolest. “He never acted as a big brother from the very beginning. I always looked up to him. Whenever I had a crush in school, he was the first person to know about it,” she says.

Arjun in turn says that the best thing about his sister is that she is very dedicated towards what she does. “And that translates into her performance. I wouldn’t want to change anything at all about Radhika. She can get away with anything, I love her a lot,” he quips.

Madan says that both of them keep teasing each other. And after a fight, no one apologises. “It just gets back to normal. We hardly have fought on any serious stuff, but if we have, whoever makes the mistake says sorry,” says the actor.

She calls herself the cartoon character Jerry and Arjun Tom, since these two characters are always fighting, to which he replies, “Yes, we love pulling each other’s leg. That’s what a brother-sister relationship is all about, isn’t it?”