Gauahar Khan and Zaid Darbar’s love story is straight out of a Bollywood movie. It started with Zaid sliding into Gauahar’s DMs on Insta. “I knew if I started a conversation, it would go to another level, as I was looking for something more permanent. I had just come out of a weird relationship and was not looking to date anymore. I took three days to message Gauahar,” Zaid reveals.

Gauahar adds, “For the first 20 days of knowing each other, we didn’t even meet, as I was in Pune. And then, in the next few days, he asked me for marriage. We started talking on July 17, and he proposed to me on August 23.”

Gauahar says she never doubted her decision: “It’s surreal that even after saying yes, I never thought, ‘What did I do?’ Maybe it was divine intervention.”

Sharing how the proposal happened, she adds, “It was my birthday (August 23) and he had planned a surprise at home with both our families. We played dumb charades. We were on the same team, and he was given the movie title Mujhse Shaadi Karogi (2004) to enact. As soon as I guessed the name, suddenly the song Mujhse Shaadi Karogi started playing. I thought people were teasing me, so I got embarrassed and shut my eyes. And when I opened my eyes, Zaid was on his knees with the ring. And I said, ‘yes’.”

Zaid goes on to narrate another incident he cherishes — their first meeting. “She refused to sit in my car. She said, ‘I am not sitting with you in your car’,” he laughs.

Sharing the reason behind doing so, Gauahar adds, “I was thinking what kind of a woman would he think I was if I was ready to sit in his car in our first meeting.”