Richa Chadha: Ali Fazal took three months to say I love you back to me

Richa Chadha and Ali Fazal have been fairly tight-lipped about their love story. They met on the sets of ‘Fukrey’ in 2012 and then made an announcement at the world premiere of Victoria and Abdul in Venice in 2017. In a cover shoot for Brides Today’s July 2020 issue, the actors gave out the details of their love story. Though initially intended as the first magazine cover post-wedding, the pandemic has postponed their wedding plans for the year.

Speaking to the magazine, Richa recalled the first time she knew this was love. She said, “We were at my house watching ‘Chaplin’ – the 1992 British-American biographical comedy-drama starring Robert Downey Jr. I was happy to see him enjoy the movie and was grateful to have found someone with similar tastes. That is when I said, “This is really sweet, I love you” to him. Richa said that it took Ali three months to say that he loves her too.

On being asked how Ali proposed, Richa said, “He had planned a romantic dinner on a small, secluded island in the Maldives. I thought it was for my birthday – I didn’t suspect a thing. We had finished eating and were sipping on champagne when Ali, being his spontaneous self, asked me to marry him. He didn’t go down on his knee, nor did he have a ring but that’s all right. After that he took a 10- minute long nap on the sand – I think it was because he may have been stressed about the proposal!”

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Richa Chadha and Ali Fazal were all set to get married this year but due to Coronavirus pandemic, it has been postponed.

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