Sidharth Malhotra: I’m very much single, still learning about love

Actor Sidharth Malhotra says he has learned that ‘there’s no such thing as the perfect girl’.

After nine films in Bollywood, Sidharth Malhotra is in a sorted space, with clarity! Not just about work, but also his love life and the endless speculation around it. Now, the actor has learnt to treat it all as a “part and parcel” of his job. Said to be fresh out of a relationship with rumoured girlfriend, actor Alia Bhatt, he says, “I am very much single!”

Sidharth Malhotra has always remained tight-lipped about his romantic relationships. (Viral Bhayani)

Asked about his definition of love, Sidharth says, “That’s a subject I wish I could articulate. I’d be lying if I said any line [to define it]; it will be a fake line. I’m still learning the process of understanding what love is. There are so many permutations and combinations; whoever articulates it is just making it up. Nobody knows!”

But one thing that the 33-year-old has learned about love is that the idea of the “perfect girl” is flawed. “It’s a mirage, it’s a cheat! There is no such thing as a perfect girl. It’s not how someone is, it’s how they make you feel. That’s more important. That feeling is a sense of positivity and warmth, and you know that there is something real to it,” says Sidharth, who has done films such as Ek Villian (2014), Brothers (2015) and A Gentleman (2017). His last outing was the recently-released Aiyaary.

Sidharth has always remained tight-lipped about his romantic relationships, but has made peace with people’s interest in his personal life. “I don’t let it affect me in a negative way. Yes, there are things which are not called for at times, and there are some things which are true also. It’s unproductive, I must say.”

His focus is on work, and he is determined to keep things that way. “I’ve worked very hard to come here [in films]. I’m not here to read about my personal life, but to work in movies, [and] create content. So, putting energy into rumours is digressing for someone like me,” the actor signs off.