Aditi Rao Hydari Reveals Siddharth Proposed At Her Grandmother's School: 'He Got On His Knee, I Asked...'

Aditi Rao Hydari has finally revealed how Siddharth proposed to her at the school started by her grandmother. She said she didn’t take him seriously at first as he would often get on his knees and pretend to propose, only to end up tying his shoelaces or fidgeting with something on the ground. This inside joke and Siddarth’s careful choice of venue made the proposal extra special for the actress.

“I was closest to my nani, who passed away a few years ago,” Aditi Rao Hydari told Vogue and added, “She started a school in Hyderabad. One day, Siddarth asked me if he could see it, knowing full well how close I had been to her.” They visited the school in March and he asked Aditi to show him a special location close to her heart: a floor above the nursery section.

“He got down on his knee and I asked him, ‘Now what have you lost? Whose shoelaces are open?’ He kept saying, ‘Addu, listen to me’. And then he proposed. He said he wanted to bring me to my favourite childhood place, one with my grandmother’s blessings,” the actress recalled.

Aditi and Siddarth met in 2021 on the sets of the Telugu film, Maha Samudram. Aditi recalled their first meeting and said, “He walked in and said, ‘Hello, beautiful girl’. Usually, when someone says something like this, it does not work. But he was being genuine. By the end of the day, he had me and pretty much everyone on the set in splits. He also ensured that my team and I had ghee idlis whipped up by his cook every day for the rest of the shoot.”

The actress believes that even if they had met as teenagers, they would still fall for one another. She said, “I’ve not been in too many relationships because when I see someone, I instantly know if this is my person.” She added, “When I met Siddhu, that’s what I felt and had no doubt about it. Of course, there is a process of growing together in a relationship but I had none of that going on in my mind when I met him, it was all about that moment.”

Aditi and Siddharth will be tying the knot later this year. The wedding will take place around a 400-year-old temple in Wanaparthy that is of significance to Aditi’s family.