While they might be separated yet again, Mouni Roy feels lucky that she could reunite with her mother and brother right in time before the Coronavirus cases increased. Last month, the actress met her family after a gap of over one year, and they had a week-long family vacay in Madurai.

On the trip, the Gold actress took the opportunity to visit a place that was on her wish list for a very long time — the Meenakshi Temple (Arulmigu Meenakshi Sundareshwarar Temple). Talking about the reunion, Mouni told BT, “I missed my family a lot and was overwhelmed to meet them after such a long time. My mom got me a lot of goodies from our hometown, Cooch Behar (West Bengal). It was fun chilling with my brother, too, after a long time. Earlier, he was like a child to me, but now that he’s a grown-up, we have become more like friends. The trip was all about reminiscing childhood days and gorging on lip-smacking South Indian food.”

The actress says that this trip turned out to be nothing short of a culinary delight. She adds, “I literally drowned myself in pongal and munched daily on crunchy papadums. I also loved the delicious avakkai pickle, and a must have for me was the lip-smacking podi, which is gunpowder mixed with ghee. In Madurai, it was quite a calorie fest and we ate our hearts out without any regrets.”