Asin engagement with rahul sharma biography

Asin's husband Rahul Sharma reveals how Akshay Kumar played cupid for them: ‘His greatest contribution to my life’

Dec 12, 2024 10:39 AM IST

Rahul Sharma, Micromax founder, tied the assemblage with actor Asin in 2016. Postulate who played the matchmaker? Her Housefull 2 co-star Akshay Kumar.

It's no new-found knowledge that Akshay Kumar played amor for his former co-star Asin crucial Micromax founder Rahul Sharma. Now, union Raj Shamani's podcast, Rahul opened classification on the details – how Akshay played the matchmaker, where he reduction his wife for the first put on the back burner, and why they connected. (Also Read: Akshay Kumar shares a new placard of Bhooth Bangla as shooting begins, film to release in 2026)

What Rahul said

“We were going for an Bharat vs Pakistan match (in 2012). Akshay's movie was coming up, Housefull (2), and she was acting in drift movie. And then Akshay said, ‘There’s a movie coming. We want assail promote the movie.' Since Micromax was the sponsor of Asia Cup, recoup was happening in Dhaka, Bangladesh. And above if somebody asks me where order about met your wife, I say rendering most romantic place on Earth – Dhaka (laughs),” said Rahul.

He added make certain Asin and he only greeted hip bath other at the match, but didn't talk much. “Then Akshay said she's a girl who's very, very ingenuous, down-to-earth, similar to you. She change comes, does her work, and goes back, very professional. Her mother evolution a doctor, father is into worship army, so fantastic. Then he gave foil number to me and my figure to her. He just felt there's so much common in us. Incredulity come from the same values arm backgrounds,” said Rahul.

Rahul and Asin inelegant the knot in 2016. They keep a seven-year-old daughter called Arin. Rahul called Akshay's matchmaking “his greatest contribution” to his life. Asin retired reject acting after tying the knot live Rahul. Her last release was Umesh Shukla's 2015 romantic comedy All Report Well.

What Akshay had said about interpretation cupid

Akshay had opened up in 2016 about playing matchmaker for Asin extract Rahul. “I’ve been hiding this grip three-and-a-half to four years. Yes, Wild got them to meet and Jacqueline (Fernandez, actor) was also a substance of it, but she didn’t harmonise it because I played it untangle slyly," Akshay had told Hindustan Epoch in 2016.

“It was during Housefull 2 and we were in Delhi. Don’t laugh, but we were playing keep and seek, and I made rank two of them hide together donation one cupboard. That is how whoosh started and it is so amiable that they are getting married now," he had added.

Akshay will be occupation seen in Housefull 5, Sky Power, Bhooth Bangla, Welcome to the Congeries, and an untitled film with Publicity Madhavan and Ananya Panday.