Ravi Dubey and Sargun Mehta are celebrating this Holi together, as has been their tradition for last several years. “My schedule has cleared up for Holi and I will be flying from Mumbai to Chandigarh to be with Sargun,” says Ravi. The couple believes in celebrating Holi in all its revelry, the colour, food, pranks, and friends. “Is there any other way to celebrate Holi apart from having a blast? We come from a culture where you go all out with family and people whom we trust to play Holi safely with. Though we should be mindful about health of everyone whom we are playing Holi with, in terms of skin and other allergies to colour,” he says.
Sargun and Ravi often refer to themselves as best friends. Are they enough for each other on festivals? “Yes, we are, though apart from each other we also include family in our nucleus of relationships. For a decade now, my large group of acquaintances has shrunk to a smaller core of close friends. And on festivals we get together and have a whale of a time,” he says.
As extensive travel keeps the couple apart, the distance only makes the proverbial heart grow fonder. “Love and relationships are distance agnostic. Anyone using distance to say relationship is not working is only using it as an excuse and there are other parameters and variable that may not be working. If your relationship with your parents doesn’t suffer because of distance, why should it with your spouse,” he says.
The intimacy of festivities like Holi reiterates the bond between this couple who refer to each other as choti and badi, for Sargun and Ravi respectively. “It is a form of endearment that has stuck with us since 13 years, when we first met each other,” laughs Ravi, adding, “The reference to choti and badi is not a comparison of age or maturity. We both wear the wise hat alternatively.”
Professionally, the couple still haven’t found the perfect script for acting together. “While as producers we are trying to create lot of stories, we haven’t yet found a story that that speaks to us together as actor,” he says.