Maanvi Gagroo tied the knot with Kumar Varun in February this year.
Maanvi Gagroo talks about how she thought her relationship with Kumar Varun would draw ‘unnecessary opinions’. She also speaks about facing marital pressures.
On February 23, Maanvi Gagroo tied the knot with stand-up comedian Kumar Varun in an intimate ceremony. Their first pictures from the wedding left everyone surprised as they successfully kept their relationship away from the media glare. Maanvi had earlier revealed that Kumar had proposed to her during their vacation in London.
And now, in an exclusive chat with News18 Showsha, she talks about what nudged them to keep their relationship under the rugs until their D-day. “It was a conscious decision, very much so. Both of us were clear from the beginning. Our friends knew. It’s not like we hid our relationship. We used to go out together and attend events. But we never spoke about it in public and we wanted to keep it that way,” she says.
“Our relationship was a very private thing for both of us. We thought that it would bring in a lot of unnecessary opinions. I didn’t want any of that. Irrespective of whether they mattered to me, I just didn’t want them around us and impact our personal space,” she remarks.
The Tripling star further says that not sharing glimpses from the prep leading to her wedding was no cakewalk. “I’m personally very superstitious and always have the worry of getting jinxed. During the last one month before our wedding, I wanted to post things like ‘30 days to go’ or ‘20 days to go’. But I really held back. The first time we went public with our relationship was when we posted our pictures from the wedding,” states Maanvi, who was recently seen in the show Half Love Half Arranged.
But did she ever feel the pressure to get married? “When I was about 27-28, I had a little bit of pressure from my parents where they asked me if I plan on getting married and if I do, then when. They asked me, ‘Is there someone? What’s going on?’ Some relative or cousin used to call me up out of nowhere and ask me about my marriage plans and that used to really bother me because I had no answer,” Maanvi tells us.
The 38-year-old further adds, “I didn’t even know them well and I would think to myself, ‘Who the hell are you to ask me?’ But that pressure wasn’t so strong or overbearing from my parents and maybe that’s because I lived by myself. Both my sister and I told them at a very young age that we would find our own partners. They were also very happy to be freed of that responsibility.”
