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Manish Chaudhari , the actor who is known to break stereotypes and choose peculiar stories, has been dazzling in the Bollywood industry after he stole the show in Aryan Khan ’s recent series ‘The Ba***ds of Bollywood.’ The 56-year-old continued the thesis to his personal life as well, and left no stone unturned to express love, overcoming the stigmas. He and his wife chronicled the unconventional story of having an age gap of 17 years.

In a recent interview with Hautterfly , Chaudhari and his wife, Shruri Mishra, opened up about their story of falling in love, irrespective of their age difference. While they accepted love with open arms, it took 2 years to convince her parents. From the casual proposal to the intimate wedding ceremony, the stunning couple took courage on their sleeve and gasped for a cherished life.

Manish Chaudhari and Shruti Mishra 's initial impressionsDescribing the first time he saw Mishra, Chaudhari revealed that it was 1 in the afternoon, and she came in with the glasses for the audition of the play which he was directing. The visuals? They simply are imprinted in the back of his mind. “Right from very early on, I used to say I love you a lot. Shruti took a little longer to say it to me,” he said in the interview. Shruti addressed the age gap dilemma and affirmed that she was taken aback, “We have a 17-year age gap. I think when I asked him, ‘How old are you?’, and then he told me, I was like ‘Really?’ I knew there was an age gap, but I didn’t know how much.” To which he responded that it never bothered her that much.

Despite the age difference, Mishra was ‘all in’ in the relationship and certainly wished for a long one. Recalling the first conversation with the actor, she had said, “Listen, I don’t know about the age gap but I think we have to live together for a very long time and I don’t care about the age gap, you have to live longer than me because I am not going to be without you for even a day so I am going to go first and you are going to stay on.” Talking about the family affair, Manish’s family was ‘pretty chilled out,’ but it took two years to slowly talk to her family. Meanwhile, the couple also highlighted that it was important for him to introduce her to the Chaudharis.

The casual proposalElsewhere in the interview, Shruti narrated the ‘casual proposal,’ where they were sitting on a sofa during the COVID-19 pandemic, and he popped the question. “I was like, ‘Is that a proposal?’ He said yes, and I said okay. I think we could top the charts for the most casual, chilled-out proposal you could ever have,” she said. The couple got married two years ago in Gurugram in a three-day celebration.