Valentine’s Day is just around the corner but the world has already started celebrating Valentine’s Week. Today, Rajkummar Rao dedicated an emotional and heartfelt note for his ladylove Patralekha that spoke volumes about their love for each other and what their relationship means to the actor. He took to Instagram to write about what love means to him and how he has become a better and stronger person with her. He also dispelled and called out on some stereotypical myths and sayings about love.
He wished Patralakha on social media and wrote, “Dear Patralekha, It’s the month of love and I’ve been thinking. Pondering, in fact, about love and the words & gestures we choose to express it. Despite having done my fair share of conventional romantic roles- today I find myself questioning many of love’s “accepted” expressions, gestures, the way it’s meant to make you feel versus how it somehow actually turns out. Now you may say, really- but love makes the world go round. Well, yes it does. But it’s also been abused & misunderstood so much. And therein lies my concern.”
He concludes by saying, “I’ll conclude by saying this. Couple of years together and we’ve had our share of ups and downs. But one thing has been constant through it all. Us. Without the mandate of fancy dinner dates, chocolates or over the top gestures, I would choose to tread this path, do things that are meaningful and continue to reimagine this beautiful emotion to be greater together always.”
At a time when Bollywood is churning out films like Kabir Singh and Pati, Patni Aur Woh and glorying misogyny, violence against women and stalker behaviour in the name of love, Rajkummar’s note to Patralekha reinforces our belief in love and what it should be.
(Source: Instagram)
