Long before the actress met husband Virat Kohli, her elder brother Karnesh SSharma was the first sportsman she loved
What if we told you Virat Kohli wasn’t the first cricketer in Anushka Sharma’s life? Long before she met the Indian skipper, she hero-worshipped another: her older brother, Karnesh SSharma!
Anushka Sharma and her brother, Karnesh SSharma, will be celebrating rakhi over a video call this year(Sunil Khandare)
Clockwise from top-left: (inset) Anushka, aged five-six months, in Roorkee; Anushka at seven-eight months, in Roorkie; (inset) On Karnesh’s birthday in Lekhapani, Assam, 1993; Anushka and Karnesh with their father, when he was promoted to the rank of Major in Roorkee, 1991; Anushka, aged five-six months, in Roorkee
“The four years age gap [between Karnesh and me] doesn’t seem much now, but while growing up, it was a lot!” —Anushka Sharma
Karnesh, who used to be in the Merchant Navy, missed all of Anushka’s teens, because he left home to join the ship, when he was 16. (Photo Imaging by Piyush Garg) (Aalok Soni)Clockwise from top-left: The siblings leaving for school, Bengaluru, 1997; The siblings in Bengaluru, when Karnesh had fractured his hand, 1998; Anushka and Karnesh with their mother, Ashima, on Raksha Bandhan before leaving for Army School, Bengaluru, in 1998; Anushka, 4, and Karnesh, 8, in Assam; Anushka’s birthday celebrations, Bengaluru, 1996; Anushka, 6, and Karnesh, 10, at a wedding in Dehradun; Spending time with their dad Col Ajay Kumar Sharma in Bengaluru, 1998;( inset) Anushka’s birthday in Bengaluru, in 1996-1997, when she was 8 and Karnesh 12
“I didn’t have any friends in Mumbai and whenever he [Karnesh] had time off from the ship, we would be together” —Anushka Sharma
Clockwise from top-left: Anushka and Karnesh celebrating Raksha Bandhan, 2017; The duo during the shoot of Phillauri in Punjab, 2016; The siblings holidaying in London, 2011; Anushka clicking a selfie with her brother Karnesh, recently; The Sharmas celebrating Diwali in October 2017; On the first Diwali at their office, 2013 The siblings in Panchvatika, 2012, when Karnesh was serving in the Merchant Navy
“We are both scared of horror films. As kids, we would have sleepless nights after watching episodes of Zee horror show!” —Karnesh SSharma
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Ananya Ghosh is an assistant editor with Hindustan Times Brunch. She has 10 years of experience as a journalist having worked as a copy editor/feature writer in various publications....view detail
