Brut India
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Rude stares, comments, hate... Nothing could stop Kshitiz and Shivangi from finding their bliss together.
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00:00Physical appearance, I guess, you don't see when you are in love.
00:18I got amputated because of an electric accident when I was just 9 or 10.
00:24So, I think for me and my parents, what people would say was very normal.
00:31My family knew Shruthi from the very beginning, from 2012.
00:35They knew that we were friends.
00:37Yeah, we were a group of 13 friends and we hang out with each other.
00:42For the one year, we do all the touristy things in Delhi.
01:00We have survived a long distance relationship and what not.
01:12We were together for almost 7 years before we got married.
01:21We used to travel in metro, autos or any public transport.
01:27People used to stare at us a lot and that was new to me because he is used to it, which is wrong.
01:38I used to get very angry in the starting.
01:51My brother helped me a lot.
01:53He is the one who told my father that they wanted to get married.
01:58They were always open to us.
02:11My mom was like, are you sure?
02:13For example, she asked, how are you going to put sindoor?
02:19This is the most important thing in the ritual.
02:25So I said, we will get married.
02:28If any parent is given a task of marrying their daughter to a disabled or differently abled person,
02:34I think they will have their restrictions or thoughts to go behind it.
02:55When we started, we knew that there will be more people like us.
03:04I am not with him for any benefit or vice versa.
03:09People used to say, there must be some benefit.
03:12There must be something wrong why she is marrying him.
03:15Just like you got married, we got married.
03:18There is nothing different in that.
03:26People were actually curious to know our parts of the love story.
03:30So we shared it in nine parts.
03:44Even some differently abled couples also messaged us saying that,
03:49seeing you both, we also believe that there could be a happy ending for us.
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