In 2012 Ram married Upasana Kamineni, the vice-chairman of Apollo chain of hospitals. In an interview he did with me hours before the wedding, Ram said, “I can’t tell you what it is like. Upaasna is already my wife in my mind and heart.”
The couple went through two weddings. The first wedding was on June 14 morning at Upaasna’s farmhouse in Hyderabad, and the second wedding was the next morning at the same venue. The wedding on June 14 was for family and friends. It was attended by around 4,000 people, mostly fans. Salman Khan also attended the wedding.
About being married, Ram said, “I feel a man, when married, becomes more balanced. All the extra-curricular activities are done away with. The focus is on work and family. I am getting married young. I’ve known Upaasna for seven years. She was my best friend. Then we started dating two years back. So I am marrying my best friend. I can’t ask for more. I sometimes ask her to switch off the wifely side and listen to me as a friend. She knows which buttons to press.”
While most women would insist on living away from in-laws, interestingly Upaasna refused to live separately from Ram Charan’s parents. “You know, when I told her I am building a separate home for us at the Golf Course area for us to live in after marriage, she put her foot down. She insisted we stay with my parents. She says she can’t handle me alone. She needs my parents’ help. That was below the belt,” he had shared.
