Kamal Ghorui
Bollywood actress Anushka Sharma and iconic cricketer Virat Kohli are often seen as one of India’s most popular power-couples. But, seems like Anushka and Virat couldn’t care less about the spotlight. In a candid chat with film critic Anupama Chopra, Anushka spoke about their marriage—high-octane careers, which are grounded in spirituality over stardom. No pedestal poses, just two souls seeing each other as “male and female versions” of one self. Here’s what she said:
“We are not attached to what we do”
“We are both not so attached to what we do,” Anushka shared plainly. While they have dazzling careers—Virat’s centuries, her films—but the couple believes that their achievements don’t define them. “We don’t see each other as two different people… we are male and female versions of each other,” she said. Instead, the couple prefers to have a simple and spiritually-inclined lives; no ego games.
For them, this detachment isn’t apathy—it’s freedom. Explaining this, Anushka further said, “If someone comes and tells me, ‘I loved your performance’, I don’t feel much. If someone says, ‘Pari didn’t do that much business’, again, I don’t feel anything. It’s in between. It’s practice.” Balance mastered, Anushka-Virat seem to sidestep their careers’ highs or lows, staying steady amid life’s chaos.
Ditching the ‘Power Couple ‘ myth
Bollywood loves “power couple” tags—and Anushka and Virat are one of them. But, surprisingly, the couple doesn’t view themselves as one! “We don’t see ourselves like that. If we started to, then there’s something really wrong in the nature of our relationship,” she said. At a time when labels inflate egos, seems like Anushka and Virat deflate them by choosing simplicity in their everyday life.Fame feels foreign, Anushka further shared as she said, “We are both very awkward with the fame that we have. We don’t embrace stardom and fame… we run away sometimes… find the need to be in our own cocoon.”The spiritually-inclined couple seem to follow the eternal truth from the Bhagavad Gita, ‘Always perform your duty efficiently and without attachment to the results, because by doing work without attachment, one attains the Supreme.’ For them, when their duty calls, they answer—then vanish into normalcy. And relationships are real, not reel for Anushka and Virat.What are your views on Anushka-Virat’s relationship which is often under public scrutiny? Tell us in the comments below.
