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Exclusive | Parul Gulati admits ‘fully played me’ on The Traitors S2, praises his gameplay: ‘Never doubted him’

In an exclusive chat with HT, Parul Gulati laughs at forming a bond with Aaditya Kulshreshth, aka Kullu, who is one of the traitors in The Traitors season 2.

Published on: Aug 22, 2026, 07:01:29 IST
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Aaditya Kulshreshth aka Kullu was one of the traitors in The Traitors Season 2, along with Krystle D'Souza and Shahneel Gill. However, Parul Gulati, who is playing as an innocent, never had any doubts on him on the show. In the fifth episode, Parul was seen convincing Kullu how she is sure that Krystle is a traitor! Turns out, in the circle of shaq, it was Kullu who eventually voted out Parul, thereby saving Krystle! (Also read: Parul Gulati says her eviction in The Traitors Season 2 was unfair: ‘Nobody was ready to believe I was proven innocent’)

Kullu's vote was the deciding factor on Parul Gulati's eviction from The Traitors Season 2.
Kullu's vote was the deciding factor on Parul Gulati's eviction from The Traitors Season 2.

Parul on trusting Kullu

In an exclusive chat with HT, the two of them opened up about their bond. After Parul's exit, it was Kullu who was voted out of the show in the next episode. Parul laughs out loud when I asked how she never doubted Kullu and replied, “He is so smart from day one. He understood the brain-game of everyone on the show, before he was even chosen as one of the traitors. He knew who he could play, and he really played me in that episode! Deciding vote was Kullu's and he played me, and I had fun being played!” (laughs)

Kullu went on to add, “I was always playing for the traitors as a team. I wanted to do my best to save Krystle from this elimination because I wanted the OG traitors to go ahead. Once recruitment of traitors begins, as we saw last season, the game starts to fall apart later! The recruited traitors are not sure what to do because they have been the innocents so far! So my point was I need to save the OG traitors as much as I can, and only then can we play the game forward! So that is why I was near Parul, and did not let her speak to other people. So when she spoke to the rest in the circle of shaq, people thought that she was manipulating! But if she had shared her points with the rest before that, they would have voted out Krystle!”

The remaining traitors after episode 6 are Krystle D'Souza and Shahneel Gill. New episodes of the show drop every Thursday on Amazon Prime Video.

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