She is from India, he is half-Pakistani. This is how the influencer couple from Chicago handles their cricket rivalry... 🏏
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00:00My parents were like, okay, like, you know, we live in America, we're open minded and
00:20like who you bring home, but just like bring, bring anyone home besides like someone from
00:25Pakistan, Muslim, Pakistan, Muslim.
00:28Your father says one thing, at least find a Muslim girl and you found a Pooja, Pooja.
00:49My first year and Reza was on his second year of college and we, he had already been working
00:54at the on campus gym and I just got a job there.
00:58So our first acquaintance was a shift together.
01:02Well, actually it was, I was working and I was a big chachora back then.
01:05I was like such a bad boy.
01:07My hair was like so long.
01:09I was wearing crazy clothes and too much cologne.
01:12I saw Pooja walk into the gym.
01:14That was my DDLJ moment.
01:15I was just like, who does he think he is?
01:22Reza lost a little bit of weight, got a haircut, looked a little bit nicer.
01:29Started to put better, put better cologne on.
01:31One day I see Pooja the next year and something just totally changed.
01:35I feel like I have more confidence maybe, I don't know what, but this time my, my lines
01:39were finally working.
01:40Yeah.
01:41I think it was the right person in the wrong timing in the beginning of the first year,
01:45but now this year I was like, I was noticing him and I was like, you know, maybe we should
01:51start talking.
01:57Our families come from two different places.
01:59Our families believe in two different faiths.
02:01I'm just like, this pretty much has a zero percent chance of working, but we're going
02:05to go after it.
02:06He started saying that, you know, let's go ahead and pursue this, become boyfriend, girlfriend,
02:10whatever it is.
02:11March 7, 2017.
02:13So in my head, I'm like, I am not going to tell my family until I know that I'm going
02:17to marry this girl.
02:19Two days later, she's like, I tell my mom about you.
02:22I'm like, what?
02:23Are you kidding me?
02:27When I told my mom, like his name is Reza, she went, Raja, oh Raja Hindustani, like a
02:36good Indian boy.
02:37And I was like, no, not at all actually.
02:42I was like Reza.
02:43I told my mom and my dad right away and then Reza literally met them within like three
02:50months of dating.
02:51And I go and like, they were so, so nice.
02:54So heartwarming.
02:55But I feel like in the back of their minds, they had their guards up.
02:58So when we're at dinner, we're eating dinner, very casual conversation.
03:04And all of a sudden her mom's like, why do you love my daughter?
03:08And I was like, what?
03:11And then Pooja's dad, he has such a soft heart.
03:14And he was like, just don't ever break my daughter's heart.
03:25The second Pooja came in the door, my mom literally started bawling.
03:41She just started crying.
03:42And I was like, oh my God, does she hate me?
03:45Cause she just started, I was like, hi.
03:48She's like, woo.
03:49She started crying.
03:51It was cause like, she felt like there was like so much hype in her mind about Pooja
03:55Pooja Pooja for like six months of finally seeing, she's like, oh my gosh, like this
03:58is Reza's Pooja.
03:59I feel like my parents warmed up to Pooja so fast and all of a sudden from that first
04:03meeting, it was just like, we love Pooja.
04:05Pooja's dad is obviously big team India.
04:21And my dad is like Pakistan Zindabad all the way home.
04:24And like, I watch a ton of cricket as well now too.
04:28And like, I remember, I think it was back in 2019, I think it was the world, I think
04:33it was T20 world cup, India versus Pakistan.
04:35At the time, Pakistan wasn't so good and India was so strong and I remember constantly
04:40Bapu would bring it up.
04:42What's going on in the cricket matches, all this kind of stuff.
04:44And obviously Bapu's daughter Pooja is like, yeah, India, India.
04:48And I would just like keep going along with my dad and be like, yeah, so like, what are
04:52your thoughts?
04:53Because Pakistan's losing.
04:54Yeah, and Pooja doesn't really like watch cricket that much.
04:57Yeah, I don't watch the games.
04:58But she just cheers cause she loves to put the salt on our wounds.
05:01I love the competition.
05:02And then this year, which is a big year for Pakistan, for the T20 world cup, when Pakistan
05:09beat India.
05:10So what actually happened was that game, it was the same day as one of her cousins like
05:15baby showers.
05:16So I was there in a room full of 200 Indians.
05:20At the same time, the match is going on my phone, I'm watching the Pakistan India match
05:24and I'm just watching, I'm looking, Pakistan's doing so good.
05:27And I'm like, hey Bapu, did you watch the match?
05:29He's like, I don't know what's going on.
05:30I'm asking even Pooja's uncles.
05:31I'm like, well, like, you know, NK Muscle, did you watch the match?
05:34He's like, no, I don't know what's going on.
05:35And everyone's just like denying, ignoring it.
05:37They know what's going on, but they just, as soon as their team loses, they're like,
05:41I don't watch it.
05:42Yeah, exactly.
05:48Do you even consider Fawad Khan?
05:49He's not in Bollywood anymore.
05:50Hey, relax.
05:51Give the man some credit.
05:52Fawad Khan, Maher Khan did a pretty great job.
05:55Yeah, but then they left.
05:56They left.
05:57They're not in Bollywood anymore.
05:58Maybe they kicked him out.
05:59There's some gossip, right?
06:00But honestly, like growing up, I'm not even kidding.
06:03I have a life-size cutout of the great Shahrukh Khan.
06:08Pakistanis love Shahrukh Khan, but almost all Indians love Salman Khan.
06:17There is like this loyalty.
06:18He has an incorrect theory.
06:20I love Shahrukh Khan too.
06:22He just has this theory that like, because my parents, they watch Big Boss and like all
06:27of the Salman Khan shows, they're just like, they love Salman, but I think they love Shahrukh too.
06:31They do, but there's a loyalty.
06:33Like they feel like, Salubaba.
06:35I think they just feel bad for him.
06:37I don't know.
06:38The day I meet Shahrukh Khan, I know this will become about my Shahrukh Khan fandom.
06:43That'll be truly one of the greatest days.
06:46Like, oh my God, he is so awesome.
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