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Actors Naga Chaitanya and Sobhita Dhulipala tied the knot in December, in an ‘intimate’ ceremony with 300 guests at the family-owned Annapurna Studios in Hyderabad. In a new interview, the spoke about their courtship, which began with a chance encounter and blossomed into something special. They had an actual conversation for the first time a year after Chaitanya’s divorce from Samantha Ruth Prabhu. Their first meeting, however, took place at his father Nagarjuna’s house over lunch. Nagarjuna had admired her performance in a film, and had invited her over for a casual get-together.
Some months later, she followed him back on Instagram, and responded to a story that he’d posted about a Japanese restaurant he owns. “I’m not a fan of texting,” Chaitanya said in an interview with the New York Times. “I’m not a fan of communicating on social media.” And so, he took a flight out of Hyderabad to Mumbai, only to have lunch with her at a cafe. “That was the charming part,” she said. “It was so old school in a way.”
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A week later, they met again at an Amazon Prime Video event in Mumbai. “I was in a red dress, he was in a blue suit,” she said. “And the rest is history.” That summer, they went on their first trip together to Bandipur National Park, with Chaitanya’s friends. On the trip, they played dress and drew art on each other’s hands in henna. “He’s a doer. I’m a be-er,” she said, adding, “I’m the fluttering kite and he’s the anchor. Our dissimilarities really kept us interested and curious about each other.”
Later that year, they went to London to attend a concert. She celebrated New Year’s with his family. The following year, 2023, he met her family in Visakhapatnam. In August, he proposed during a trip to Goa. “There is alignment, there’s chemistry, there’s curiosity,” she said, adding, “And it became obvious that our dissimilarities kept the tension alive in good ways and bad. We definitely wanted each other — that much was understood.” She continued, “It was cute, and it was steady. It’s not a case of two tender hearts falling in love. It was more like two metals being welded by the same wants from life, and we were able to speak about those things freely without inhibitions. That moved me.”
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