Twenty-one days. That was the amount of time Anushka Sharma once calculated she and Virat Kohli had spent together during the first six months of their marriage. Not 21 leisurely days at home, not a string of long holidays, but a few precious pockets of time squeezed between film shoots, cricket matches, flights and work commitments.
And sometimes, even meeting meant finding time for just one meal.
“People assume when I’m visiting Virat or when he is visiting me that it’s a holiday, but it’s really not. One person is always working,” Anushka said in a 2020 interview with Vogue India. “In fact, during the first six months of our marriage, we spent 21 days together. Yes, I actually calculated.”
The detail is striking because it turns the glamorous image of a celebrity marriage into something much more ordinary: two people trying to find an hour together when their calendars rarely lined up.