TV actress

Rupali Ganguly, who is popular from her show ‘

Anupamaa

‘, is much in the news lately after her step-daughter

Esha Verma

alleged her of having an extra-marital affair with her father Ashwin Verma. However, in an earlier interview with Mashable India, Rupali Ganguly opened up about her lesser-known

love story

with her now husband Ashwin Verma. In the chat, the TV actress opened up about how she met Ashwin and his unusual way of proposing to her.
Recalling about how she met her husband Ashwin, Rupali said that back then he was working on an ad film and she was selected from 100-150 pictures. And when she took up the project, people called her mad for agreeing to do the ad film where she was playing the role of a 60-year-old married woman.

“I had left work at that time. I had joined a catering college. I was so disillusioned with the film industry and then I joined catering college when I was very young. And then I was dressed up as a 60-year-old, as a wife,” she said.

And while Rupali was conscious about her get-up, Ashwin seemed to be flirting with her, she said. “Suddenly, when I came out as a 60-year-old with white hair and everything, the first line he (Ashwin) said was, ‘I wouldn’t mind getting old with someone like you’,” Rupali shared.
Soon after this incident, Rupali and Ashwin started talking and getting to know each other better. This, of course, came with a lot of money which was spent on ISD calls back then, the actress shared. They started as friends and then got married– however, there wasn’t any formal proposal by Ashwin, Rupali said in the interview. “We decided on the date and I told Ashwin to talk to my father. He spoke to my father and they were convinced. We then spoke to Ashwin’s parents, it was nothing grand or pompous we did the

registered marriage

,” Rupali said.
Since they had a registered wedding, Rupali took only one day’s leave from her work for it. Recalling the incident, she further shared that she was working on ‘Parvarrish’ and had told her producer that she needed a day off for her wedding.
Now, that’s quite a unique love story.