Shaleen & Daljit share on life after 'the wedding'!

You people have been dating from so long. How has marriage brought a change in your relationship?
Shaleen: Well, there has been a beautiful change in our relationship. And there should be a change if you want to be a responsible husband and wife.

We'd like to know what changes you've noticed in each other post-marriage?
Shaleen and Daljit: Umm…No changes…

Do you miss anything at all from you dating period?
Daljit: Umm…no
Shaleen: I do miss. Her parents' scolding. Don't go for movies late at night and stuff like that (laughs).

Daljit is not seen on TV. Is that a conscious decision to not work after marriage? If no, when can we see you get back?
Daljit: Well, we made a decision to get married. There was  no time actually to work after marriage as I needed time to get to know my new family. And the new things that were happening. Now that I'm back to Mumbai and well adjusted I would definitely be back on TV very soon.

What kind of roles are you looking for?
Well it's been just a month since I got married so not many changes have happened. I'm looking for sensible and interesting roles.

Shaleen, in Do Hanson Ka Joda you play a geeky character. ..
I don't play a geeky character. Suryakamal is a very intelligent guy. He is very mature… he is the man. In fact later in the show he becomes the hero of the girl he gets married to.

Daljit, usually girls have to make a lot of adjustments in their lifestyle once they become a wife. Did you have to do so too?
People make adjustments when they have to. But I did not have to adjust into any specific thing as such. Of course, before marriage you stay with your parents and after getting married you enter a new house where the lifestyle is different. So to adapt to this new lifestyle I think comes naturally as a human tendency. I won't call it an adjustment. It's something very beautiful. When your in-laws welcome you with so much love, it becomes a cake-walk. I still can't believe that one month has passed so quickly. So it has been a beautiful dream like life as of now and I'm sure its gonna be like this forever.

Does marriage truly require working on every single day?
Daljit: Definitely. Whether its marriage or any kind of a relationship it has to be worked on. I think the time when you take any of your relationship for granted, it starts losing its charm. So definitely every single day you should work on your relationship whether its marriage or otherwise. Yeah I completely believe in that.

One love song, or film that you both can totally relate to.
Shaleen starts singing – Thoda hai thode ki zaroorat hai
Daljit bursts with laughter – How cute is that!
Shaleen (sings again): Bas itna sa khwaab hai

Both the songs?
Shaleen :Yeah both the songs!

Shaleen, have you come across the typical married man moment yet- where you had no clue whether to support your mom or your wife?
Haha…no not like that. But in the sense that previously the whole household was my responsibility. I used to stay alone. But now she has taken over the leadership from me. Now she is the one instructing the cook and the maid. Even when I don't agree I keep quite because for so long I've waited for someone to take this responsibility away from me and now that it has happened I don't want to interfere.

Daljit, do you address your husband now…with a 'aap'?
I have been addressing him that way right from the beginning.

So guys when are you planning to go the family way?
Shaleen: We are a family na…hum do hamare do cook…
Daljit: I think right now he is busy raising me …I'm a very naughty child for him.
Shaleen: It's a very serious thing. I think you should plan for it when you are mentally mature enough. I think mentally she is say four and a half and I'm somewhere around eleven and a half. I think we have a lot of scope to grow.

Apart from that what plans for the near future?
Shaleen: Lot of plans yaar…like right now after you leave we'll have food. Sorry I'm just kidding. Well, as far as career plans are concerned, I'm doing my business which is really good, my show Do Hanson Ka Jodaa is doing good and people are really liking me. I'm concentrating on that. I've taken it too seriously so I've grown my own moustache. As for now I really hope that it runs very long this way.

Reporter: Ashima Mishra
Author: Susan Jose