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Team India all-rounder and Gujarat Titans captain Hardik Pandya renewed his wedding vows as per both Christian and Indian traditions with wife Natasha Stankovic on Valentine’s Day, February 14, in a grand ceremony in Udaipur earlier this year. Hardik married Natasha in 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic before the birth of their son Agastya, but it was a court marriage then.
A month after Hardik Pandya’s wedding celebrations, a video has now gone viral on social media in which Hardik Pandya is seen giving Rs 5 lakh to his sister-in-law and Lucknow Super Giants all-rounder Krunal Pandya’s wife Pankhuri Sharma. The payment was made so that Hardik could get back his ‘shoes’ after the wedding ceremony.
In the video posted by Natasha, Hardik’s sister-in-law Pankhuri demanded Rs 1 lakh to return his shoes under the traditional ‘jhoota churai’. In return, Hardik asked a person to transfer Rs 5 lakh.
“Tell me, how much do you want?” Hardik was seen asking Pankhuri. The India all-rounder then asked someone in the crowd to transfer the money and said, “He only asked for Rs 1 lakh, but I gave Rs 5 lakh.”
See Hardik Pandya paid Rs 5 lakh to sister-in-law Pankhuri Sharma…
If you are rich then you should be like this. My life is to be as rich as Hardik Pandya pic.twitter.com/qyHvfkxFWq– CS Rishabh (Professor) (@ProfesorSahab) June 18, 2023
Meanwhile, Natasha is seen laughing during the entire conversation. Pankhuri said that she will not return the shoes until the money is transferred. ‘Jhoota Churai’ has been a part of the culture in traditional weddings in some parts of India where the sister-in-law steals the groom’s shoe and asks for money or gifts in return.
Hardik Pandya has led Gujarat Titans to the Indian Premier League (IPL) final for the second time in a row in the 2023 season. But the defending champions lost to MS Dhoni’s Chennai Super Kings in the final of IPL 2023 at the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad last month.
The Team India all-rounder was not a part of the Test squad that lost the final of the World Test Championship (WTC) to Australia at the Oval in London earlier this month. Hardik Pandya is expected to lead the T20I team in the five-match series against the West Indies next month.
