Patralekhaa and Rajkummar Rao tied the knot after almost a decade of dating each other in November 2021. Recalling their first meeting, the actress said in a recent interview that she found her husband ‘very weird’ after seeing his performance in the 2010 film ‘Love Sex Aur Dhokha’ (LSD).
During a conversation with Humans of Bombay, Patralekhaa recalled, “I had just seen LSD.His first film. About three days later, one of my school friends called me, she said, ‘Could you do this video for me, it’s a music video, and I am calling this other actor called Rajkummar. He was just in LSD.’ I said, ‘Ruksana, no, I am not coming because I think he is very creepy and I was scared.’ She was like, ‘Nothing will happen, we will send you a car, and why don’t you get your sister along with you?’ I was like, ‘Okay, let’s see.'”
The actress went on to say that she felt strange when they first met. She shared, “I made my sister sit between me and Raj, and they started chit-chatting. I was feeling weird because he was that creepy guy from that movie. So, I was pinching her, and said do not talk to him. And eventually, it was bit awkward, because the ride was also long from Mumbai to Pune. So, he was like, ‘Hey, what do you do?’ I am like, ‘I have done these couple of ads.’ And the moment I said that, I saw there was some shift. And as the story goes, he had seen that particular ad and he was like, ‘I wanna marry this girl.'”
Patralekhaa talked about how she fell in love with him while they were filming the song video at FTII. She revealed, “We were there for three days. He was just a different human being. Someone who loved his art so much, and was so passionate about his work. It was such a rarity, and I just couldn’t stop falling in love with him. I was like, ‘Oh my god, this man is all about his work and passion and there is so much integrity and depth to him.’ Most of us, back then, when we were doing audition rounds, everybody was doing this either to become richer or to become famous. But he was this guy who was just doing this for the love of his art.”
On the work front, Patralekhaa was last seen in Anubhav Sinha’s OTT series ‘IC 814: The Kandahar Hijack’. It was based on the hijacking of the Indian Airlines Flight 814 in December 1999. It also starred Naseeruddin Shah, Pankaj Kapur, Vijay Varma, Arvind Swamy, Kumud Mishra, Manoj Pahwa, Dia Mirza, Amrita Puri, and Dibyendu Bhattacharya among others.
Patralekhaa Reflects On Her Audition Days, Working With Vijay Varma For IC 814 & Husband-Critic Rajkummar Rao
