{"id":78568,"date":"2025-08-19T20:31:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T20:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/78568\/"},"modified":"2025-08-19T20:31:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T20:31:08","slug":"geeta-basra-said-yes-to-marry-harbhajan-singh-when-he-scored-300-wickets-reveals-yuvraj-singh-helped-him-get-her-number-they-had-just-won-the-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/78568\/","title":{"rendered":"Geeta Basra said yes to marry Harbhajan Singh when he scored 300 wickets, reveals Yuvraj Singh helped him get her number: ‘They had just won the World Cup’ |"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Geeta Geeta Basra<\/a> entered the film industry at the age of 21, debuting opposite Emraan Hashmi<\/a> in Aditya Datt<\/a>\u2019s 2006 romantic thriller Dil Diya Hai. The following year, she teamed up with Hashmi again for the crime thriller The Train. Around this time, her path crossed with cricketer Harbhajan Singh<\/a>, who was instantly taken by her. \u201cHe was very clear. He saw my poster, and it was probably love at first sight for him. He asked Yuvi (Yuvraj Singh<\/a>) for my number. Obviously, Yuvi has a lot of friends,\u201d Basra shared, subtly referencing Yuvraj Singh\u2019s links with actors like Deepika Padukone<\/a> and Kim Sharma. Harbhajan reached out to her, but Basra didn\u2019t respond at first, admitting she knew nothing about cricket or cricketers.<\/p>\n

Harbhajan Singh and Geeta Basra spotted in Andheri<\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019d just won the World Cup. So a couple of days later, I\u2019d messaged, \u2018Well done! Congratulations!\u2019 That\u2019s it. We got in touch again. When we met, he was very clear he didn\u2019t want friendship and said, \u2018Tere se hi shaadi karunga\u2019 (I\u2019ll marry only you). I said, \u2018Shaadi?\u2019 I was only 21,\u201d she recalled during an interview on BHARTI TV. At that stage, Basra was just beginning her acting career and wary of the industry’s challenges. \u201cI\u2019d just stepped into the industry. Fifteen years ago, it was a very different time for women. Even if you were spotted with someone, your career was over. I lost out on four films because of the news that I was getting married. So I always say maybe I came to India so I could meet my partner and soulmate,\u201d she reflected. Born in England, Basra had moved to Mumbai to pursue acting. Although Harbhajan was quick to express his feelings, Basra took her time. \u201cFor him, it was love at first sight. But I took 10 months to say yes. I told him the day you\u2019d score 300 wickets, I\u2019d say yes. A couple of days later, he got 300 wickets. So I said let\u2019s give it a shot. Because all my friends told me he\u2019s a very good guy. He\u2019s a star, but doesn\u2019t have the attitude of a star. He\u2019s humble. He\u2019s also a Punjabi like me. That matters a lot because he can gel with my family, like my nani (maternal grandmother) who speaks only in Punjabi. So that sense of unity enters your family,\u201d she explained. The couple tied the knot in 2015. Looking back, Basra shared what helped her make the decision: \u201cSometimes, we just need to know, can I spend the rest of my life with this partner? Because we\u2019re from different countries so there\u2019s a cultural difference. Then he\u2019s so known so I was wondering if he\u2019s loyal. Because I never wanted to marry an actor because there\u2019s a perception. But he\u2019s beyond that. He\u2019s a very grounded person.\u201d”Get the latest updates on Times of India, including reviews of the movie Coolie <\/a>and War 2<\/a>.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Geeta Basra entered the film industry at the age of 21, debuting opposite Emraan Hashmi in Aditya Datt\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":78569,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[40026,40030,2972,1721,40027,10231,40029,40025,8694,40028,101,56,54,55,10123],"class_list":["post-78568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-300-wickets","tag-aditya-datt","tag-celebrity-marriages","tag-cricket","tag-cricket-and-film-industry","tag-deepika-padukone","tag-emraan-hashmi","tag-geeta-basra","tag-harbhajan-singh","tag-love-at-first-sight","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-yuvraj-singh"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78568\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}