Bollywood filmmaker Anurag Kashyap has been in a relationship with Shubhra Shetty for nearly a decade. Because of their age difference and whether marriage is on the cards for them, in a recent conversation with Janice Sequeira, the filmmaker and Shubhra spoke about their relationship, the scrutiny they have faced.
Shubhra revealed that she is in her 30s While Anurag is 53 years old. Anurag was first photographed with Shubhra in 2015, but it was only in a 2018 interview that he first admitted to being in a relationship with her. The couple ended their six-year marriage in 2009 and share a daughter, Aaliyah Kashyap. Anurag later began dating actor Kalki Koechlin, whom he married in 2011.
When asked about their plans to marry, Anurag revealed that Shubhra doesn’t believe in marriage and added, “I’m very happy to be with her. Because if it doesn’t happen, then what can happen after that? He said that, for the first time in his life, he had found something worth living for and therefore did not want to die. Because her face doesn’t show her age, there was a point.
I want to be with her. So, whatever that takes. There’s a lot in life. What is an old man’s insecurity? I want to be healthy enough to outlive the people I love. The ways of the world. So, I think about it a lot. But my thing is, as long as we have found what we have found now, I’m happy with anything. I don’t want to lose this. Shubhra recalled that she and Anurag were in their honeymoon phase and deeply in love when she casually mentioned that being in love was on her bucket list and that she could happily die after experiencing it. However, Anurag became emotional and teared up. Shubhra described it as the sweetest way of looking at their relationship. He added, “We’ve had our moments. We have been self-conscious. I’ve been more conscious.. And not just more conscious, at one point, I became so conscious, I was trying so hard to push it away. She still looks the same. She doesn’t look her age. So the thing is, the more I grew older and she kept looking the same, that’s when I became slightly conscious. Before his relationship with Shubhra, Anurag was married to editor Aarti Bajaj. They ended their marriage after four years.
He told her that before meeting her, he had never been afraid of dying and did not care if he got into a car accident. Anurag said that the age-shaming no longer follows them, although they have had their “share of troubles”.
Shubhra Shetty previously worked as an assistant director at Anurag’s production company, Phantom Films.
