Mahesh and Namrata’s Secrets to a Happy Marriage

The usually shy Mahesh Babu, gave an interview to a leading English daily with his wife Namrata and had a heart to heart chat. Mahesh and Namrata first met way back in 2000, during the mahurat of the film Vamshi. But Namrata revealed that it was only towards the end of the movie that he started going out with Namrata. “The mahurat meet was very brief. We started dating towards the end of the movie,” says Namrata.

Talking about how they got married, Namrata said. “I was shooting the whole night before for the film Athadu. I finished the shoot and flew down to get married. I was busy till the week before the marriage, as I was trying to finish all my assignments. I really had no time. But then all the arrangements were done by my sister and brother-in-law and my parents.” Mahesh candidly said, “I was not at all nervous. My only concern was, since it was not a publicised affair, how would the outside people react?

“It was a simple ceremony and at the same time it was a private affair. That is something which I cherish, because here principally when you go for a wedding, people known to the family turn up in such a huge scale that you lose those moments in the crowds. I remember, even though it was a Telugu wedding and the pundits from Tirupati were chanting mantras in Telugu, they took out time to explain each phera to me and my family in Hindi. I felt that was really sweet.”