I wasn’t wearing a sweater and it was so cold in that first week of January in Delhi that my nose wouldn’t stop running and I had goosebumps for three hours. I held a balled-up tissue paper in my left fist, tucked under my dupatta on my lap, and I would wipe my nose whenever the director asked his question so that I didn’t have to do it while answering him.
It was not just the cold that made me uncomfortable. It was also the questions, or rather, the emotions that the questions evoked in me.
We were in the last phase of shooting for a docu-drama based on my own life and love story. The web series Love Storiyaan is the Valentine’s Day release of 2024 on Amazon Prime worldwide. It is backed by Karan Johar, produced by Dharmatic Entertainment and based on India Love Project that documents true stories of love and marriage outside the shackles of faith, caste, ethnicity and gender.
The whole shoot had been emotionally fraught for me. My kids had flown down from Canada and Belgium where they work and live, we had travelled together from Delhi to Kerala, and had new and exciting experiences.
But we were also confronted with questions about some of the most difficult times of our lives as a family.
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