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Months after Ranbir Kapoor and Alia Bhatt tied the knot and embraced parenthood, a throwback picture of the couple from the day when the Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani star proposed to the Gangubai actress went viral.
Alia's mother and veteran actress Soni Razdan, on Thursday (29), dropped a video featuring her favourite memories of 2022. The video features the magnificent moment of Ranbir and Alia's proposal scene.
In the image, Ranbir is seen sitting down on one knee with an engagement ring in his hand and asking Alia to marry him. The actress, on the other hand, seems to be holding back tears.
There's also another photo that left everyone in awe. The particular snap shows Alia sitting next to Ranbir during their wedding ceremony.
"Photo dump 2022..some happy moments from the year we're about to leave behind ..and Happy New Year already," Soni captioned the post.
In no time, the pictures surfaced online. However, Soni deleted the reel after a few minutes.
Soni's reel comes a day after Alia treated fans with a video montage of a couple of pictures which did not make it to Instagram this year.
From Alia trying out her bridal outfit and a glimpse of her hairstyle for her haldi ceremony, the video features all.
Sharing the clip, Alia wrote, "pics that never made it to the gram."
Alia and Ranbir welcomed a baby girl, Raha, on November 6. Announcing the baby's arrival, Alia via an Instagram post said, "And in the best news of our lives:- Our baby is here...and what a magical girl she is. We are officially bursting with love - Blessed and obsessed PARENTS!!!! Love love love Alia and Ranbir."
Meanwhile, on the work front, Alia was recently seen in the sci-fi action film Brahmastra: Part 1- Shiva alongside Ranbir, Amitabh Bachchan and Mouni Roy. Helmed by Ayan Mukerji, the film was declared a blockbuster hit.
She will be next seen in Karan Johar's upcoming romantic film Rocky aur Rani Ki Prem Kahani opposite Ranveer Singh, Dharmendra, Jaya Bachchan, and Shabana Azmi.
On the other hand, Ranbir will be seen romancing Shraddha Kapoor in Tu Jhoothi Main Makkaar.
Speaking at a business event, she basically said her village roots made it harder.
Directly named SRK, calling him a Delhiite with a convent education.
Threw "brutal honesty" out there as her secret weapon.
You can already imagine the social media frenzy this kicked off.
It's the latest salvo in the whole insider-outsider war that never ends.
Well, she's done it again. Kangana Ranaut, now MP, just reframed the entire Bollywood struggle debate with one comparison. At a recent industry gathering in Delhi, she got to talking about her success. And then she brought up Shah Rukh Khan. Not with nostalgia. She positioned her own journey from a no-name Himachal village as the tougher path against his, what she termed, convent-educated Delhi background, and it obviously sparked reactions online.
Kangana says coming from a small village and being brutally honest shaped her journey in Bollywood Getty Images
So what did she actually say?
Her exact words: "Why did I get so much success?" she asked the room. Classic Kangana, starting with a question she's about to answer herself. "There is probably nobody else who came from a village and got such success in the mainstream. You talk about Shah Rukh Khan. They are from Delhi, convent-educated. I was from a village that nobody would have even heard of, Bhamla." And the punchline is that she believes it's her "brutal honesty" that did the trick.
Kangana calls brutal honesty her secret weapon in the film industryGetty Images
Let's talk about these two different worlds
Look at the facts. Kangana. Bhamla. Left at 15 for Mumbai, a kid with no roadmap. Her fight in the industry is well-documented, every step a battle she talks about. Four National Awards though, that's huge. Then Shah Rukh. Delhi. Lost his parents young, sure. But he cut his teeth on TV, became a name before he even hit films. His Mumbai move in '91 led to... well, to being King Khan. Both stories are about making it from nothing. But nothing means different things depending on your postcode, apparently.
Shah Rukh Khan’s Delhi upbringing gets compared to Kangana’s village struggleGetty Images
And the fallout?
It's a mess online, obviously. You have one side cheering her on for saying the quiet part out loud: that a village girl with no English has a steeper hill to climb than a guy from the capital. Then the other side is just exhausted. They're saying it's a cheap shot, that it diminishes Khan's own loss and grind. Does this debate even go anywhere? It just seems to recycle every few months. But people click. They always click.
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