“When I saw her, I felt like I fell in love.” Watch actor Varun Dhawan talk about the time he met his wife Natasha Dalal, in conversation with Kareena Kapoor Khan.
Thanks to Filmy Mirchi for the footage.
Thanks to Filmy Mirchi for the footage.
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00:00I actually, the first time I met Natasha is in the 6th standard.
00:04Oh God! But you have not been dating since then?
00:06We have not been dating since then.
00:08We were friends till like the 10th, 11th, 12th grade.
00:11We were very close friends.
00:12But the minute I saw her, like I remember now also,
00:15and I remember her walking and I remember seeing her
00:18and actually when I saw her I felt like I fell in love with her that day.
00:26I think you and me both have grown up in that same kind of space
00:29where we are always continuously in a high speed shot.
00:32Correct.
00:33I think it happened with me and Saif.
00:34Correct.
00:35In his head a Hindi film was not playing.
00:36No, never. He is at Clint Eastwood.
00:38He is at another…
00:39A Hollywood movie was going on.
00:40And I was in Main Hoon Na, like that Sushmita Saree Wala Flying.
00:43So that's why I said we both are quite similar.
00:45I think the same thing happens with me and Natasha also that
00:48you know I am obviously more filmy.
00:50Like if we are going for drives, I want to play Hindi songs.
00:53And she is like…
00:54And I want to play Hindi songs.
00:55And she is like, what are you doing man?
00:56And I am like, come on.
00:57And she is like, let's play Chainspokers.
00:59And I am like, yeah, yeah, we will play, we will play.
01:01But good, but it's good to have a mix, please.
01:03Yeah, 100%.
01:04So tell me what are some things which you wanted in your partner which you got?
01:09I really got honesty in my relationship from my partner, you know.
01:12And that is something which I had to kind of learn from
01:16and understand the value of that as I went about in my relationship.
01:21Yeah, of course.
01:22It's a very deep rooted answer.
01:25But this is the answer to any boys who are listening to me.
01:27This is the answer.
01:28That's exactly what women want.
01:29Honesty.
01:30But you have to be careful when you hit them with that honesty.
01:33Let me be honest.
01:34I love women.
01:35I just love women.
01:36I love being around them.
01:38I love talking to them.
01:39But are you actually like that?
01:40Like, you know, playing pranks and doing that in real life?
01:43No, no, not so much in real life.
01:45But yeah, I have a lot of fun in me and all that stuff.
01:49I do all that.
01:50But to a level, I love women because I just feel that
01:53they have a far better insight on things than men.
01:56The way they understand things.
01:58They're more mature.
01:59Yeah.
02:00When someone starts dating someone,
02:03do you think that you should actually tell those lies to them
02:06to kind of impress them first?
02:08You know, those little little white lies to just kind of impress them.
02:11A little bit.
02:12But how much lie is too much according to you?
02:14No, obviously you can't change your name and all.
02:17I remember when I was in college and I was dating this girl.
02:21She was like the hottest girl in the college at that time.
02:25And she was way out of my league.
02:27And I wanted to talk to her somehow.
02:30How do I talk to her?
02:31And she had a boyfriend.
02:33But I wanted to talk to her.
02:34She had a boyfriend, not a husband.
02:36So during class or something, I would sit,
02:39not near her, but very close to her.
02:42Just that she'll see me at some point.
02:44And I think after a month or something,
02:46after I stopped trying is when she started noticing actually.
02:49Yeah, so I think girls like that.
02:52When the guy actually...
02:53They love it.
02:54I actually, the first time I met Natasha,
02:57is in the sixth standard.
02:58Oh God, but you have not been dating since then?
03:01We've not been dating since then.
03:02We were friends till like the 10th, 11th, 12th grade.
03:05We were very close friends.
03:07But the minute I saw her,
03:08like I remember now also,
03:09I went to Manejji Cooper and she was in yellow house,
03:12I was in red house.
03:13And it was on the basketball court.
03:15And in lunch break, we would get like,
03:17you know, in the canteen,
03:18they give you food or give you energy
03:19and you get samosa or whatever you get.
03:22And I remember her walking and I remember seeing her.
03:25And actually, when I saw her,
03:28I felt like I fell in love with her that day.
03:31That was it.
03:32But then you didn't obviously see her for a while.
03:35No.
03:36I mean, I always,
03:37she rejected me like some three, four times.
03:39And then started dating much later.
03:41Yeah, but see, I was, I kept, I didn't give up hope.
03:46You seem like quite a, like love lawn.
03:49You believe in.
03:50I wouldn't, but once it hits you,
03:53then you're a goner.
03:55Yeah.
03:56So you do believe that love is all you need.
03:58And you feel that, you know,
03:59for the happiness of the company,
04:01money is very important.
04:03And you know, like.
04:04No, not money.
04:05I can live on love and fresh air.
04:06No, I don't think anyone can live on love.
04:08Let's be practical.
04:09I don't think so that's possible.
04:10But definitely when you fail in life,
04:12which every human being will,
04:14having that one person by you,
04:16who you can lean on,
04:17is the most important thing in the world.
04:19You know.
04:20Because you never know when that time.
04:21See, I know hits and flops don't affect you,
04:23but they affect me.
04:24No, what rubbish.
04:26It doesn't affect her, I'm telling you the truth.
04:27No, that's not true at all.
04:28Even if she's given the biggest blockbuster,
04:30she has the same smile like she has
04:32if a film will not do that.
04:33But now, Varun,
04:34you've been with your fiancée since school.
04:36You've been with Natasha.
04:37So I want to know who made the first move
04:40and like, you know,
04:41like how did you all decide that,
04:43this is it, we have to get married?
04:44See, marriage,
04:45obviously now coming into this,
04:48like coming into this time period
04:50after you've been with someone for so long,
04:52I felt like getting married
04:54is after I saw my brother and my sister-in-law.
04:57And after they had,
04:58my niece has come,
04:59so when I saw my niece,
05:01it's like, this is good.
05:03And even Natasha,
05:04I think her parents
05:05and even she's been pretty chill in that sense.
05:07But I think after a certain period
05:09when you decide that you want to live with each other,
05:12like me and she would have not mind
05:15living in together.
05:16Doing a living in scene.
05:18But I think my parents in that sense wanted us,
05:20because I have my own place now, so.
05:22But now you're not living with?
05:24With her? No.
05:25No, with your parents.
05:26No, I don't live with my parents anymore.
05:27So Varun, do you have a communication style?
05:29Like, are you like the traditional face-to-face kind of guy?
05:33Or, you know,
05:34do you prefer WhatsApp messages?
05:38I hate talking on the phone.
05:39Why? Yeah, I know.
05:40Why is this?
05:41This generation is just like,
05:42they don't want to pick up the phone and talk.
05:44I just get really like,
05:46I mean, I just, I don't know.
05:47I don't enjoy talking on the phone.
05:49I talk to one person on the phone
05:50and that's my friend Kavish.
05:52Yeah, but otherwise,
05:53more for work to like, you know.
05:55Yeah, yeah, work, we talk.
05:56Work, I mean, work I do talk.
05:58I mean, those work calls I do do.
05:59But that's better face-to-face, I feel.
06:01That's face-to-face.
06:02So you prefer conversations that are face-to-face?
06:04I can't have phone conversations.
06:05No, or messaging?
06:06Messaging is okay.
06:07Time pass.
06:08And have you ever mistakenly
06:10messaged someone by mistake?
06:11You know, where you're like,
06:12thinking about a person
06:13but you're texting someone else
06:14and then you send that message.
06:15Oh, like a mistake message?
06:17Oh no, no, no.
06:19I've had mistakes where I've called the person
06:21by other names and all that stuff.
06:23Like by other names?
06:24Yeah, yeah, yeah.
06:25Like girls?
06:26Yeah, yeah, that's happened.
06:27Oh God, that's even worse.
06:28That's happened, that's happened with Kapoor.