When you are a child of cross-cultural love, you can exercise choice. Ruchi Soni laughs about Gujarati traits passing her by entirely, and Malvani traditions, which come from her mother Shobha, making a place in her heart. "I don't even speak the language," she says, referring to her father's Kutchi roots, "but Sawantwadi in Sindhudurg, where my mother hails from, has always been a draw for me."