{"id":389683,"date":"2026-03-17T13:47:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T13:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/389683\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T13:47:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T13:47:08","slug":"i-thought-she-was-lara-dutta-akshai-varde-recalls-mistaking-sameera-reddy-at-their-first-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/389683\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I thought she was Lara Dutta\u2019: Akshai Varde recalls mistaking Sameera Reddy at their first meeting |"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\u2018ISameera Reddy wed Akshai Varde in 2014; they have two kids and live quietly in Goa. She now creates social media content on motherhood and wellness; he runs a bike shop. They met at ‘Tezz’ promotions\u2014she gave him her number first. Love sparked instantly, leading to their January 2014 wedding. Sameera Reddy<\/a> and her husband Akshai Varde got married in 2014. They have two kids and often share family photos on social media. The couple lives a quiet life in Goa, away from Bollywood’s busy world and cameras. Sameera quit acting in films and is now a social media creator whose videos cover cooking, motherhood, body positivity and mental health. Akshai runs his custom bike shop. Lately, they talked about how they met and fell in love.<\/p>\n

Sameera Reddy and Akshai Varde at \u2018Tezz\u2019 promotions<\/p>\n

Akshai showed up at the \u2018Tezz\u2019 film promotions certain he’d meet Lara Dutta<\/a>. \u201cSomeone told me there\u2019s this actress, Sameera Reddy. In my head, I was picturing Lara Dutta,\u201d he admitted. Sameera, recounting the moment to Hauterfly, said she first noticed him on a massive bike brought for the shoot. \u201cThere was this big bike that came in for the shoot, and Akshai was on it,\u201d she recalled. While he kept his eyes on safeguarding the borrowed ride, she felt an instant spark. \u201cI was like, wow, he\u2019s really hot. I started behaving like a teenage girl trying to impress him,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n

Sameera Reddy\u2019s Healing Journey Through Yoga<\/p>\n

Sameera Reddy gives number to Akshai Varde<\/p>\n

Once the shoot wrapped, Akshai held back from asking for Sameera’s number, figuring a Bollywood star was beyond his reach, so she took the lead and made sure he had it. \u201cI wasn\u2019t going to ask for her number. I\u2019m like, Bollywood actress, no way. I\u2019m not getting into this, you know. Then she comes up and says, oh, you know what, this bike\u2019s really fancy. And I have a lot of friends in Bollywood. And she dropped some names and all. They would all be interested in bikes like this. So, you should get my number. So I took out my phone and I said, okay, give me your number. So, promptly she has given me her number. Yeah, but that was how we met.\u201d \u201cThat\u2019s how it started,\u201d Akshai said. \u201cWe went on a date, and the story began.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sameera Reddy and Akshai Varde’s wedding<\/p>\n

Sameera Reddy and Akshai Varde got married on January 21, 2014. The couple has two kids, a son named Hans, born in 2015, and a daughter named Nyra, born in 2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sameera Reddy wed Akshai Varde in 2014; they have two kids and live quietly in Goa. She now…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":389684,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[263],"tags":[177970,2157,18,117,19,17,21518,327,172615],"class_list":["post-389683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-akshai-varde","tag-bollywood","tag-eire","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-lara-dutta","tag-movies","tag-sameera-reddy"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116244830402734116","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=389683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389683\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/389684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}