We Are Best Friends : Anushka Sharma Talks About Rakhi Memories With Brother Karnesh

She says, “My earliest memories of Raksha Bandhan, are of Karnesh saying, ‘I don’t want a rakhi’. He’s always evasive of this celebration while I was an enthusiastic child wanting to tie him that rakhi. I wanted to get him like really big rakhis but he would not let me do it, so I would have to tie those small ones. When I would go to the store and look at all those big rakhis wistfully and think those are not for me ever. He would let me tie a small rakhi, but that too would be taken off the next day. I would feel very bad about it because I was young and thought that meant my brother won’t protect me because of this, but then I realised that he would protect me no matter what. Today, we are best friends and have supported each other through everything. He’s been such a huge support in my life and I think that’s what this relationship of ours is about.”

The tradition of Rakshabandhan actually involves, the brother gifting his sister but it seems an excited Anushka was more keen to do the other way round for her brother. Recounting one such incident, Karnesh said, “As children, Anushka and I celebrated Raksha Bandhan before heading to school as we didn’t have holidays. And usually it’s the brother who gifts his sister something, but I remember this one time — I used to play cricket then — she saved up enough pocket money to buy me a cricket bat, which was a special moment for me.”

Well, looks like Anushka is the perfect sister every brother would wish for!