Like in When Harry Met Sally, for telly couple Manav Gohil and Shweta Kawatra too it was love that came in-between friendship.
The couple met each other for the first time when they were working on a famous daily soap Kahaani Ghar Ghar Kii. And they were also working on another show titled Kkusum.
“We met on the sets of Kahaani.., we became friends on the sets of Kkusum. The bonding was so strong that we became best of friends quite soon. We used to spend a lot of time together and confide in each other about everything,” Shweta says.
However, destiny had some other plans in store. Manav started liking Shweta and that made her feel a little awkward. “Both of us have burnt our hands in past relationships. And when I realised that he likes me more than a friend, it made me feel uncomfortable. I wasn’t being free and frank with him like earlier.”
The unease reached such a level that they stopped talking to each other. “I didn’t know how to handle the situation. I was upset that I am going to lose a friend as I didn’t want to get into a relationship with him. I thought that he was not my kind of guy and I was so not his kind of a girl. But then I started missing him. And gradually, everything fell in place and we were soon dating each other...But there was no verbal declaration that we are seeing each other from this particular day,” she adds.
Shweta hails from Delhi and Manav is from Baroda. Fortunately, the couple didn’t have cultural differences. “We knew everything about each other. There was too much of transparency, so we took our sweet time to settle down,” she says. And they got married after three-and-a-half years of courtship period.
And marriage hasn’t changed much about them except for the interdependence on each other. “We have grown together over the years and this interdependence has also allowed us to grow individually. The best part is that we have been very aware about the process,” she says.
Manav too echoes Shweta’s words. “A perfect couple is not the one who gaze into each other’s eyes and makes false promises to each other. It is necessary to have a common goal in life,” he says.
More than half a decade after their marriage, they are yet to plan the third member of the family. “We haven’t decided anything. Let’s see, if everything goes well, maybe next year,” Shweta ends.
