Yami Gautam finally spills the beans on dating Aditya Dhar and keeping it a secret, reveals who knew within the industry

Yami Gautam and Aditya Dhar’s wedding was big surprise for the fans. The couple managed to keep the relationship away from the spotlight for quite a long time and Yami has now opened up about everything from how they fell in love to why they kept it a secret.

The Bhoot Police actress and the filmmaker collaborated for the first time during Uri: The Surgical Strike and that is where they became friends. Yami while talking to Hindustan Times revealed, “I’d say the start was during the promotion of Uri: The Surgical Strike (2019). That’s when we started talking. I wouldn’t call it dating. But yeah, that was a time when we started interacting with each other and started a friendship.”

The actress is happy to have surprised the media for the right reasons with her wedding announcement in June. She added that as individuals both her and Aditya are private people and do not believe in doing outings which helped keep them away from the limelight.

Yami on being quizzed about who in the film industry knew about their relationship told the publication, “I don’t think it’s right on my part to reveal that. Let’s just say that I have a lot of respect for certain friends, very few of our common friends, who respected our privacy. It meant a lot to us. It’s always nice to share this with people and the media, but when you both are comfortable. There shouldn’t be any kind of pressure or any kind of precedent for anyone that ‘Oh, that is how so and so carries themselves. So that’s how it has to be’. You’ve to decide for yourself, what works for you and what makes you happy. And this is what makes us happy.”

Yami and Aditya’s wedding was an extremely private ceremony where even a planner was hired at the last moment. The actress says she had always known she’d wear her mom’s saree, the dupatta and nath gifted by her nani for her wedding and wouldn’t change a thing about ceremony even if there was not pandemic.

While the wedding announcement did create quite a stir on social media with fans going gaga over the simplicity of the whole affair, Yami says, “I wouldn’t have changed anything about the wedding, none of us would. Even if there was no pandemic, we would’ve still wanted this quiet and personal ceremony with our families, and just the way it was in a place where we both connect with. That’s who we are as people. Our families are really happy.”

Both Yami and Aditya have resumed work after returning to Mumbai. Yami will be seen next in Bhoot Police while Aditya has begun work on The Immortal Ashwatthama with Vicky Kaushal.