“We are celebrating one year of an 11-year journey together! Malli has this strange way of celebrating six-seven anniversaries - the first time we met, the second time when it took off, and third, the engagement anniversary. The worst is when i come back on one such day, she’ll look at me with a big, beautiful smile and i’m thoroughly confused. After about half-an-hour, she says, “You forgot? And i’m like ‘Oh shit! What did i forget?’ And she says, ‘it’s our anniversary’ and i am clueless. Wasn’t it on November 20? i feel so bad that i forgot ‘that’ anniversary,” laughs Zayed.


How has marriage changed him? “The best thing is that it hasn’t. We are pretty much boyfriend and girlfriend in that sense. The comforting fact of just coming back home to her and chilling is what’s different in our life. The whole idea of marrying each other was ‘cos we liked the way we are. i do eat more vegetables and she’s stopped chewing paan! i also don’t bullshit her about small things like dentist appointments anymore because there is no space to do that.


She’s right here!” he says, adding that he smokes less too. To which Malaika says, “i don’t know about him smoking less or drinking more. And his absentmindedness is still very much there even though he likes to believe otherwise. But he’s definitely a lot more affectionate towards his family as compared to his boarding school days. He’s more a family person than a party person today.” “One year went by in the blink of an eyelid and a lifetime is too short for us. i want to build a home for my wife and start a family soon and soon is as ambiguous as that. it’s a positive soon as opposed to a timeless soon,” he says. Does distance make the heart grow fonder or wander?


“it would be a cliche to say fonder, but we are both way too close and i miss her a lot when i am away and that depresses me,” says the doting husband. How many anniversaries do they see in the horizon? “Malli, what’s our favourite number? One million right?” he asks.





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