Sidharth Shukla & Shehnaaz Gill, An Unfulfilled Love Story

Mumbai: In an uncanny similarity with the untimely death of actor Sushant Singh Rajput when the focus was on his girlfriend Rhea Chakraborty, all eyes at TV actor Siddarth Shukla’s cremation a few hours back, were on his ‘special friend’, Shehnaaz Gill. Sidharth Shukla died on Thursday morning at the age of 40.

Also his ‘Bigg Boss 13’ co-contestant, Shehnaaz was inconsolable when his last rites were being performed.

Famous among their fans as ‘SidNaaz’, the two visibly shared a cordial bond, and when she was on ‘Big Boss 13’, Shehnaaz would off and on make no bones about her feelings for Sidharth.

Though SidNaaz never formally confirmed their relationship, they appeared together on reality shows, where their chemistry was all too evident.

Their ‘Bigg Boss 13’ co-contestant Abu Malik, music composer Anu Malik’s brother, has been reported as saying that Shehnaaz had urged him on to ask Sidharth to marry her, IANS reported.

Malik recalled: “Shehnaaz said this to me on March 22, 2020. I think this was just a day before the first lockdown. Sidharth used to love her a lot. He would say that if she woud get upset, it affected him as well.”

The beautiful relationship has been cut short on a painful note — and Shehnaaz, by all accounts, isn’t taking it well.

Reality TV regular Rahul Mahajan said after visiting Sidharth’s residence to pay his last respects to the departed actor that he had also met Shehnaaz and found that she gone “completely pale as if a storm had just passed by and washed away everything.”