The bright, colourful and fresh looks of the season can only characterise the deep bond of Sai Deodhar and Shakti Anand.

The telly stars who met during shooting seven years ago, are now inseparable for a lifetime. M&B gives you a peek into the beautiful moments shared by the soon-to-be parents!

Love Aaj Kal
Sai: We met on the sets of Saara Akaash, a show on Star Plus. We were playing the main leads. We had never met before that .After two years of working together, we became good friends. I was engaged to someone else in the US. I was all set to go abroad and study there. I was never allowed late night parties as I come from a strict background. We never interacted beyond the sets. I used to tease him with good-looking girls who used to throw themselves at him. He was a great friend of mine and I never had a clue that he was interested in me. Then, one day, he was shooting for Crime Patrol in Lucknow and he called me. He said he had something important to tell me. He wasn’t willing to talk over the phone and wanted to sit and talk face-to-face. I got very curious because he was generally a fun-loving guy and now he was sounding serious. He wanted me to wait till he got back but I insisted on knowing what was going on. Out of the blue, he popped the question ‘Will you marry me?’ The surprising part was me saying yes! There was no dating. I  was 22 years old and my dad was convinced that this was just an infatuation. He told me that I didn’t have to marry the person I was engaged to if I didn’t want to but this was too sudden. I felt sure and told my dad that the only sad part about the whole affair was that Shakti took so long to ask me! My mum, on the other hand, had seen it coming. She had asked me once that when the show got over, whether it would be okay with me if I didn’t see him so regularly. I said it wouldn’t be a problem as we’ll always be friends. But she said it would be different. Once Shakti came back from Lucknow, he didn’t even wait for his parents to come to my house so they could formally ask my hand in marriage. He got some close friends and came to my house for the roka. Within a month, we got married. We had a very filmy marriage. We never dated; I started going around with him after we got married! And now, we are in the seventh year of marriage!
I am part Bengali and part Maharashtrian. He’s an out-an-out Punjabi. For me, getting married to someone who is not from the same community was not unheard of. Still, there were cultural differences. Maharashtrians are very different from Punjabis and then he being from Delhi and I from Mumbai was again another point of difference. According to Punjabi custom, women wear red bangles once they are wed, while Maharashtrians wear green. Punjabis get married during the night while Maharashtrians get married during the day. I guess, the difference is the beauty of it. When you have everything similar or common, it gets boring.

We were married early, when I was just 22 and I grew up with Shakti. Nowadays, girls get married at 26-27 and then they suddenly feel their biological clock is ticking so they have to get pregnant. It was not the same for me. We enjoyed our marriage. After six years, we felt we had reached the point in our marriage and relationship, where we were ready to take the next step. I also had a personal tragedy at home. My father passed away last year. That gave us another reason to have a baby in the family. It was a conscious decision. We knew we wanted to have a baby, but one morning when I took the test, I woke up Shakti and told him there are two lines on the strip. He told me to go back to sleep and that I was imagining it. I said ‘No, it says I’m pregnant’. My mum lives right across, so I went to her place to give her the news, draping a shawl over my night gown! She got all excited and we decided to go for the blood test immediately. So, in the same night gown, we sat in the car and went for the blood test to confirm the pregnancy. That’s when it finally hit Shakti. So the first reaction was OMG!