Bhavana Pandey reveals her father didn’t approve of her marriage with Chunky Panday because of his ‘Casanova’ image: ‘I read in an interview…’

“She and Chunky were in the same acting class. She had a crush on him and she brought his poster back. I said, ‘He is so good looking’ and I put the poster in my room in the wall. I always thought he was a very good looking guy,” she added.

The Fabulous Lives of Bollywood Wives star was also asked about their first meeting. To which she replied, “We met at a nightclub for the first time. My final exams of college were going on in Delhi. We decided to sneak out of the house for a few hours just for a break. That’s where I saw Chunky. We were 3-4 girls together and he said, ‘Hi’. He must be saying it to all the girls I am assuming, I said it back and walked away thinking that I knew him.”

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Bhavana continued, “Actors weren’t easily seen at that time, we had no social media, it was a different world. As soon as we went ahead, we talked about it that we saw Chunky Panday. We came back and then we chatted a bit. I had seen him on screen, never in person. He was very charming, we all even danced together. Then, he asked me for my phone number and my dad was very strict. I gave him the wrong phone number, the landline which never used to work. I was so scared of my father picking up the phone call.”

She also revealed that it was Chunky who proposed first for marriage. “We dated for nine months and then he proposed. It was a sweet one. I used to be in Frankfurt a lot as a flight attendant. There were no mobile phones, everything was very expensive to call. I used to save money and call Chunky. We went for dinner in Delhi once, it’s where we met the first time. We were just talking normally and he suddenly said that I am buying tickets to come to see you wherever you go, let’s save money and get married. This was his line.”

“I said, ‘No, this is not an acceptable proposal’. Then, he went on stage and sang my favourite song, he made it a little romantic. The next step was to convince my parents. My mother was okay because she had met Chunky,” she added.

However, their love story wasn’t one without its own hurdles as Bhavana’s father didn’t approve of their union. “My father was very against it. We have a very different kind of background. Both parents in service, he didn’t understand the film world. He dug out interviews and said, ‘I read that he is a Casanova’. There were so many rumours so papa ko manaane mai time laga but he finally agreed. Today, Chunky is more of a son to him.”