SOHA ALI KHAN AND KUNAL KEMMU
‘He’s a very good storyteller. I enjoyed spending time with him because he could make me laugh. We were friends for a year before we became romantically involved’
– Soha Ali Khan
‘A lot of people give advice on marriage and I’ve heard a lot – but I think marriage cannot be the elephant in the room. You have to live it every single day and enjoy it like everything else’
– Kunal Kemmu
He writes poetry and she, prose. He grew up in suburban Mumbai, amid the rough and tumble of life and local trains – the lot of the average Mumbaikar. She grew up a princess, as the daughter of the Nawab and the Begum of Pataudi – between the lush fields of her ancestral estates, magnificent homes and palaces spread across Delhi, Mumbai, Bhopal and Pataudi. While he attended a local school in the Maximum City, she studied at the British School in Delhi and travelled to Oxford, England, to get her degree in history. Kunal Kemmu and Soha Ali Khan walked vastly diverse paths before choosing their common oeuvre in cinema. In fact, their life, in a reverse Aristotelian way, is a reflection of the art and story that they are serendipitously part of. Their story together began when they first met on the sets of Dhoondte Reh Jaoge.
It was the striking contrast in their pasts that sparked curiosity and endless conversations, forging a deep bond of friendship that transformed into a full-blown romance and, eventually, marriage. “He’s a very good storyteller. actor about their ‘opposites-attract’ love story.
