Bipasha Basu On The Man She Loves

Bipasha Basu has been living a life straight out of the movies over the last couple of months—a romantic fairytale proposal by Karan Singh Grover on New Year’s Eve in Koh Samui, a beautiful wedding that had most of Bollywood turning up, and a honeymoon in the Maldives. Celebrating her first month of married life, the Bengali beauty tells Farhad J Dadyburjor why she’s the reality check in the relationship and her short-term memory that has helped in moving on from past relationships.

- Farhad J Dadyburjor

 Life is full of little ironies. Who would have thought that Bipasha Basu would meet her future husband Karan Singh Grover on the sets of a film called nothing less than Alone. And at the biggest moment of her life when some acting skills may have helped her—what with Karan down on one knee with a ring in the other hand proposing marriage on New Year’s Eve in the beautiful surroundings of Koh Samui, Bipasha instead got extremely freaked out and blurted, “What’s wrong with you? Why do you want to marry me?!”

She laughs about this in hindsight. “I said a lot of nonsense. The first thing I said was, ‘I’m not supposed to be married! Why do you want to marry me?’