Kriti has a way of letting her feed say what she wants to. After a wedding photo of Kabir with some other woman made the rounds and started the whole ‘they’re done’ conversation, she put a warm, close-up with him in her most recent post. A way of telling everyone that the romance is fine, thank you very much.
Why the post matters now
You can only be so busy on the internet before you start making up stories. An image from Reddit of Kabir with another lady had people talking. Then comes this new set of photos from Kriti. The timing was hard to miss.
The comments section lit up in short order. Some saw it as good old-fashioned damage control. “Finally she is shutting up trolls,” said one. “Rumours put to rest,” went another. And a third: “They are together.”
What the photo shows
It’s a no-strings-attached kind of shot of the two of them at a show, with arms around one another like they have all the time in the world. He’s in a nice ivory sherwani; she is in a black hoodie with the words ‘Emotionally Invested, Financially Broke’ on the back. Very her.
You’ll find it in her ‘half yearly’ round-up of things she hasn’t shown you yet. The caption has a bit of a wink to it, as if to say we don’t put everything on display.
Clarification on the viral wedding picture
Someone in the know has been at it, to be sure. They say the lady in the wedding photo is a friend of the family, someone he’s as close to as a sister. They think the internet was in a hurry to judge and got it wrong.
Then again, they’ve never put a label on it. But for months they’ve been in each other’s orbit. Things got even noisier when they were seen in the same car for Nupur Sanon’s wedding to Stebin Ben in Udaipur, and later at some of the after-parties where Kabir was in the mix.
Fans and internet mood
One well-placed photo and the tone of the room changes. Here is what the followers are making of it:
– No statement needed to make a point
– Undermines the break-up talk
– Feels like a real moment, not for the camera
– You get the sense she is in on the joke with us
Work front: Cocktail 2 and more
And on the job side of things, business is as usual. Homi Adajania’s Cocktail 2 is still in the box office with over Rs 85 crore to its name, with Shahid and Rashmika in tow.
She even threw in a behind-the-scenes with Rashmika in the photo dump. It’s a way of saying she has the numbers and the private life to go with it, and doesn’t feel the need to document every detail.
Not long ago on a chat show she let on her type is ‘not from the industry.’ She didn’t give any names, but you can see why some are rethinking that comment.
All in all, the subtext of this week’s post is plain to see. No long-winded explanations, just a little nudge to put things right. For those of us who follow what she does and who she is with, that says more than any words could.
