Mira Rajput And Shahid Kapoor

Welcome hello! Into their retro experiment with marriage, getting to know and love each other after “first jumping into the boat, and then figuring it out,” as the dapper shahid shares. In this rarest of rare exclusives, we decode the dynamics of this filial ménage-à-trois – where baby misha has also played a stellar role!

- Sangeeta Wadhwani

A SUCCESSFUL MARRIAGE REQUIRES FALLING IN LOVE MANY TIMES, AND ALWAYS WITH THE SAME PERSON….

No two people one has met recently, espouse this reality more passionately, than the 23-year-young Mira Rajput, and her 13-year-older husband, Shahid Kapoor. While their own love story was still finding its valleys and peaks, flowing into new shapes and depths, they ushered in Project Misha, their little toddler daughter who is all of 14 months old, and has quickly learned to face the phone camera and the paparazzi lenses with élan. Like mother, like daughter?

Think about it. Mira Rajput herself has adapted to being a public personality in record time, even facing TV Prince Karan Johar’s outrageous probes on prime time television… “Have you had sex in a car?” “Yes,” she chipped, no holds barred. Not only did Shahid and Mira confess to sleeping together in their birthday suits, they disclosed many other intimate details an older generation would have blushed all shades of the rainbow, if even asked. Fascinatingly, Mira, with her total non-showbiz orientation, claims she didn’t feel the slightest awkwardness doing that still-talked about TV interview. “How is that line of questioning getting under your skin?” she counter-questions. “But how comfortable an experience was that for you,” one insists. And the pretty ingénue-wife shares, “I think if you’re comfortable with each other, you can be yourselves anywhere. I think sometimes Shahid and I really make other people uncomfortable with our PDA (public display of affection) but I don’t think others bother us, really.” One laughs and tells her, “Oh, so the awkwardness is the other way around!”

MIRA, MIRA ON THE WALL…