Reza and Puja: An Indo-Pak love story

Brut India

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.

06:56Kuch Kuch Hota Hai

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