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Why Aayush is unfazed by gossip

- rishabh.suri@htlive.com ■

Rishabh Suri

Actor Aayush Sharma, who recently made his acting debut with LoveYatri, is still learning the tricks of the trade. It’s naturally tough to make it big in a cut-throat industry like Bollywood, and then there are the rumours and speculatio­ns that one has to deal with on a daily basis.

There were many conjecture­s made when Aayush married actor Salman Khan’s sister, Arpita Khan, and got a film produced by Salman. However, Aayush is unfazed by them.

“You don’t need to explain anything to people you know well. I am somebody [about] whom there was a lot of conjecture... about my relationsh­ip with Arpita. I never felt the need to explain it. Me and my wife need to have that strong bond. Whatever people may say or do, I am not going to demean my marriage by going out there and having a conversati­on. I will never do that,” he says.

Aayush maintains that nothing really affects him; he rather laughs it all off.

“People are free to have their own perspectiv­es, I can’t control people’s minds,” he adds.

Did Salman guide him on how to tackle all this? “He didn’t. [Look] at his life... there was a lot of conversati­on about him also. He never went out to explain himself, and that’s how it is. When I got married, I was not even a celebrity. My wife is a celebrity’s sister; she was not a celebrity herself. Having said that, for us to get that kind of attention, it was funny! But if we got it, it didn’t make me feel like I am a popular person,” shares Aayush.

 ?? PHOTO: SARANG GUPTA/HT ?? Aayush Sharma finds it funny that his marriage with Arpita Khan got more attention than many celebrity couples
PHOTO: SARANG GUPTA/HT Aayush Sharma finds it funny that his marriage with Arpita Khan got more attention than many celebrity couples

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