After months of speculation, actor Gauahar Khan and Zaid Darbar announced their engagement last month. The couple will tie the knot on December 25.

The bride-to-be reveals that over a month of knowing him well, they got engaged. “I felt this is my kind of human being. I knew we would have a great friendship. We didn’t have a courtship. I met him, we hit it off and marriage was not on his mind. It was in a flow and after meeting me, in literally over a month, he proposed. There were no second thoughts,” she gushes about Zaid, son of music director Ismail Darbar.

Khan reveals that when her dad was hospitalised and she was in Pune taking care of him, she met Zaid only three times in six weeks. “I had to go to Pune right after he proposed and I got to know him better over the phone. I had a deeper understanding of life during the Coronavirus pandemic. What got further emphasized is that time with family and loved ones matters the most. To meet a man who believed the same, made me think he is my kind of person,” says Khan, adding she is unfazed that she is seven years older to Zaid. “I can be a goofball with him and also find the maturity and balance in the relationship,” she says.