On Sunday (May 26) night, Taha Shah Badussha and Pratibha Rantta were spotted on a dinner date in Mumbai. After stepping out of the restaurant and posing for the shutterbugs, the duo was seen getting inside the same car and leaving. Needless to say, the Heeramandi actors left the internet gushing with many wondering if there’s romance brewing between them. But we’ve learnt that this ‘national crush’ is currently single.
In a recent exclusive chat with News18 Showsha, Taha tells us, “I wish I could tell you that I’m in love but right now, my responsibility is to not fall in love but to give back to my mother and make her proud. Right now is the time to focus.” But that’s not to say that he doesn’t want to get married someday. “The only relationship that I should be having is with my work so that I can take care of my family. But yes, I want to fall in love and have a family in the future. And for that to happen, I’ll have to first stand up on my own two legs,” he adds.
Much like the love-smitten Tajdar Baloch in Heeramandi, Taha reveals that he’s always been “a lover boy”. Describing himself as a lover, he shares, “I’ve always been a man who would give his soul to the girl he falls for. When I fall in love, I’m a ten. But let me also tell you this that it’s very difficult to find love. Having said that, when love hits me – and it has hit me a few times – I’ve gone all out. I’m an extremist in that sense.”
The 36-year-old recalls penning love letters to his girlfriend back in the day and rues how the young generation will never understand the charm of old-school love. “I’m a 90s kid. At that time, there was no internet. I had a bad handwriting and yet wrote love letters. I used to put flower petals into the letter and throw it into the bus for the girl to catch it. Then there were times I wouldn’t see the girl for two-three days and her friend would meet me somewhere and give me the letter from her end,” he says.
The actor, who recently made his debut at the Cannes Film Festival, continues, “It’s difficult for Gen-Z to realise what love letters actually mean. People don’t even have a pen anymore. They just keep typing everything on their phones. Hand-written notes have a different essence.”
So, what’s the mushiest thing he has done in love? “When I was in tenth or eleventh grade, there was a girl I used to like. I had her sweater with me and during summer vacations, I had wrapped it up in a plastic bag so that her smell doesn’t go out. Whenever I would miss her, I would smell the sweater,” smiles Taha.
