MUMBAI: Bollywood actor Evelyn Sharma turned a podcast host with The Indian Express’ latest podcast – Love Matters With Evelyn Sharma. The podcast discusses relationships, sex, and everything else that impacts people’s lives. The podcast is a co-produced by Indian Express and DW (Deutsche Welle).

Speaking to Indian Express, Evelyn elaborated on the concept of the podcast. “It’s a big jump from what I’ve been doing earlier, but I think a lot of our lives have changed over the past two years. There are new ways to connect with the audience, and I feel I’ve been maturing with them.” 

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She further said, “When DW approached me with this concept for a podcast about love and relationships in India, I felt this was exactly the phase I’m in, in my life. I’m getting married, I’m becoming a mom, and I have my dating life behind me. I have all my friends asking me how I met my husband and so I thought this is brilliant topic, for me to learn more and meet interesting people, connect with the audience, and entertain them as well.” 

She also explained on the comforts of being on a podcast, and it was like a different form of socialising, something the pandemic had changed. “I think the best part is, recording from your own living room, it’s a way of setting the comfortable environment. I felt it was a way of having people over to your own living room. Reminded me of sitting on my balcony and having a cup of chai with a friend, and the same with this podcast. Really interesting topics, that move people. It’s a way of socialising for me,” she said.

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Evelyn has also opened up about her own relationship with Tushaan Bhindi, whom she married this year, “My husband is, technically Gujarati, he’s from Sydney, Australia. I’m Punjabi German but I feel more Indian than him as I lived in India for 10 years. I’ve travelled so much that I’ve seen so many cultures. We have these mixed cultures in our marriage, and so we’re establishing our own rules.”

Evelyn, who is expecting child, added that their marriage will be a mixed pot of cultures, and they really don’t know which to follow. “He’s Hindu, and I’m Christian, so we have inter-religious marriage too, that shows in festivals and food that we eat. When you get married, you get married to the other person’s family, because we are already so independent. We realised we had to learn another culture, I speak German, he speaks English, what language will our child grow up with? Is she going to learn German? There are so many questions. 

Credit: TOI/Deutsche Welle/The Indian Express