The Ranbir-Alia Wedding, Guess Where They Met For  The  First Time?

Ranbir Kapoor has been in love  any number of times. The high-profile  girlfriends  that we know  of, are only the  tip of  the  iceberg. There were many  others, some of  whom ,including a high-profile socialite , were really intense while they lasted.

But Alia was special from the beginning. She  is  the  first  woman in Ranbir’s life  whom he was  actually committed to  marry  from the start.

“One doesn’t know what it was about Alia. But  Ranbir shared a  different  equation with her  from the start. He  saw her the way  his dad  Rishi Kapoor  saw Neetu Singh: the woman he was  going to  marry,” says  a  close friend  of the  couple.

Apparently Ranbir never promised marriage to  any of  his other girlfriends. That he  was  going to marry  Alia was a ‘given’ in their relationship from the time they  met  at Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s residence.

Incidentally the Salman-Aishwarya and   the  Ranveer-Deepika relationships began on the sets   of  Sanjay Bhansali’s cinema.

So what did Alia have  that Ranbir’s earlier  girlfriends  did not?

 Mom  Neetu Kapoor’s  approval and  blessings.  If mutual  friends are  to be believed, Ranbir’s mother never approved  of Deepika Padukone and  Katrina  Kaif.

“Neetuji  warmed up to  Alia from the beginning. Alia was  comfortable  around  both Rishiji and Neetuji. They planned to get  married  in 2021. But then  Rishi suddenly  passed away and all  wedding plans were  put on hold. But the mutual affection between  Alia and Neetuji  only grew over time,” says  the  friend.

Of  all his  son’s girlfriends Rishi  Kapoor  loved  Alia  Bhatt  the  most. They got along….well,not exactly  like a house on fire. But definitely, there  was a  bond there,  missing when it came to Ranbir’s  previous  girlfriends  Deepika Padukone and Katrina Kaif. In   fact neither Rishi  Kapoor nor his wife Neetu Singh   found much to talk about with  Deepika or Katrina. Not that  either  of the two ladies made any effort  to  reach out let along connect with  Ranbir’s parents. This factor played a  big hand in the  way Ranbir’s relationships  went with his two previous girlfriends.

Alia, on  the  other hand, didn’t have  to make an  effort to  connect with Ranbir’s parents.

“It comes naturally to her. This joy in  being part of Ranbir’s family is  bliss to  Alia. In her own  family she craved  for her parents(filmmaker Mahesh Bhatt  and actress Soni Razdan) to be together. But her father was  often missing. Being with Rishi and Neetu gave Alia a  sense  of belonging,” says a friend of the Kapoors.

With Rishi Kapoor gone, Alia keeps  close tabs on her future mother-in-law.

It  is Alia,not Ranbir who calls  up Neetu regularly  . Ranbir is way too  taciturn .Alia is far more open  about her feelings. That’s why as far as  Rishi was concerned they make  a perfect couple.