Patralekhaa opens up on her eight-year-romance with actor Rajkummar Rao
MUMBAI MIRROR (January 25, 2019)

Citylights actress Patralekhaa doesn’t know what the future has in store for boyfriend Rajkummar Rao and her but says being together is enough for them. She saw him on screen for the first time in LSD: Love Sex Aur Dhokha and thought that the weird guy he played was actually what he was like. “My perception of him was already tarnished,” she laughs. Raj first saw her in an ad and decided he was going to marry her.

Working together was magical. “The kind of passion he had was powerful. He would bring everyone along with him like a tornado. He made sure that not only him, but everyone did their best, and I couldn’t respect him any more than I did then,” she says in an online post, exclaiming, “How could we not fall for each other?”

They did not officially go on dates but would go for long drives, movies, sit at home and eat their hearts out and accompany each other for auditions, silently offering support. “It’s all we needed - that understanding,” she says, adding he bought her a ridiculously expensive bag with his meagre savings. Years later, it was stolen in London, and she called him sobbing because it meant so much to her. “At our hotel, the exact same bag was waiting for me. These little things make me realise how lucky I am to have him,” she says emotionally.