Actor Pankaj Tripathi and his spouse Mridula have been married for around 19 years now. Mridula lately regarded on a YouTube channel named Conversations with Atul, hosted by means of Atul Taishete. On the display, Mridula shared her struggles with her mom-in-law, who hasn’t fully everyday her due to their love marriage all through a time when such unions have been no longer widely familiar.

Mridula defined that she married Pankaj regardless of issues from each families. She first met him at her brother's wedding ceremony, where Pankaj's sister become marrying her brother. As they grew nearer, they concerned that their courting wouldn’t be usual because Mridula got here from a circle of relatives of better social standing.She stated, "It's still now not appropriate. We aren't blood family, however in our tradition, it's far unacceptable for a lady to be married right into a own family of a decrease stature, if another woman has already been married right into a circle of relatives of a better stature. And because my sister-in-regulation have been married above her station into my own family, I couldn't be married into their circle of relatives, which became considered of a decrease stature."

Pankaj, Mridula's love story
Mridula and Pankaj first developed feelings for each different when she was in ninth grade and he become in eleventh. At one factor, she changed into nearly engaged to someone else, so she determined to tell her father approximately Pankaj. To her surprise, he spoke back definitely, announcing, "Why didn’t you tell me faster? I wouldn’t have wasted time looking for boys," at the same time as her mother and sister-in-regulation have been upset.

Mridula stated that recognition took time and even now some differences remain. She stated, "There became a tehelka, a bawaal. Bhaabhi wasn't satisfied, and mom wasn’t happy. They worried approximately how Pankaj could deal with me. But slowly, they started to just accept us." She concluded, "What are we able to do approximately it now?"

For the unversed, Pankaj and Mridula got married on January 15, 2004. In 2006, they welcomed their daughter and named her Aashi Tripathi.