Ranbir Kapoor and Alia Bhatt are the most beloved and top celebrity couples in Bollywood. The couple are the powerhouse in terms of their acting skills. They were first seen together in Ayan Mukerji’s Brahmāstra: Part One – Shiva. The couple fell in love with each other on the sets of the first film and dated for several years. Later, they tied knot in an intimate wedding ceremony in 2022 and welcomed their first child Raha Kapoor in the same year. Recently, the actor called himself lucky for marrying his best friend Alia. He also opened up about their 11-year age difference. 

In an interview with Nikhil Kamath on his podcast, Ranbir said “I’m so lucky I married somebody I’m so close to as a friend where we can really chat, laugh, bitch. You know, like she’s my best friend. I got really lucky with that. Alia is a wonderful person. She’s somebody who’s got… she’s very colourful. She’s 11 years younger than me and it’s very funny; the first time I met Alia was when she was 9 years old and I was 20 years old and we did a photoshoot together because Sanjay Leela Bhansali wanted to make a film called ‘Balika Vadhu’ about child marriage. That’s the first time I met her. It seems a little weird now to say.” 

“She changed more for me than I changed for her. I’m acknowledging it but I should do something about it. I should change a bit… She used to speak in a very loud tone and I think because of my father’s tone growing up, it always kind of rattled me. So she really made efforts to change and that’s not easy. You’ve spent 30 years of your life speaking in a certain way. She’s someone who very instinctively reacts if Raha falls down. There’s a reaction… She makes certain things which put me at ease. I hope I could say something I did that put her at ease but I don’t think I have done yet. I did bake a cake once on her birthday,” he added. 

On the work front, Ranbir is currently working on Nitesh Tiwari’s Ramayana. In this mythological drama, Ranbir will be seen as Ram, Sai Pallavi as Sita, Yash as Ravana, Lara Dutta as Kaikeyi, Sunny Deol as Hanuman, Arun Govil as Dashrath and Ravi Dubey as Lakshman. The movie is scheduled to be released in theatres in 2025.