When Arjun Kapoor and Malaika Arora first went public with their relationship, many people raised an eyebrow over their 12-year-age gap. However, the couple have managed to win the affection of many fans and their friends and family too. Regardless, trolls still have a field day attacking the couple for their age gap, and in a new interview Arjun opens up about the trolling.
On their age gap
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Speaking to a UAE-based media portal Arjun said, “Firstly, I think that the media is the one who goes through the comments from people. We don’t even look at 90% of it so the trolling cannot be given so much importance, because it’s all fake. Those same people will be dying to take a selfie with me when they meet me, so you cannot believe that narrative.”
He went on to add, “What I do in my personal life is my prerogative. As long as my work is being recognised, the rest is all just a lot of noise. Plus, you can’t be so bothered about whose age is what, so we should just live, let live and move on. I think it’s a silly thought process to look at age and contextualise a relationship.”
Coming out in the open
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Back in 2019, on Arjun’s birthday, Malaika and Arjun went public with their relationship, with Malaika posting a picture of them on her Instagram. The couple, who at first hid their relationship from the media, decided to come out.
Speaking to Filmfare, Arjun opened up about the reason why, “We’ve come out because we feel the media has given us dignity. There’s a certain understanding the media has… they’ve been respectful, kind, honest and decent about it. That is why I felt comfortable. You recoil when there’s a certain ‘gandhagi’ that comes with the territory. When purposely people irk you by saying, writing or asking things… there hasn’t been any of that. Where the paps are concerned, we give them photos when walking in and out of a place. It is normal. We talk to them. There’s a certain ease. I told them don’t sit under the house just because it looks like we’re hiding, when we’re not. Let it be natural. Let it be normal. I don’t want my neighbours being disturbed, I don’t want her neighbours being disturbed. We’re not doing anything wrong. I don’t want that story being conveyed that we’re still hiding, when we’re not. They understood that.”
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Honestly, we love the couple and the fact that Malaika is an older woman dating a much younger man is indeed heartwarming. It is unfair that she gets subjected to much trolling too, especially when the roles are reversed—men with much younger wives and girlfriends are not subjected to this sort of attention.
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