Overview
- On the Feb. 25 episode of The 50, Krishna Shroff said she is living with Afghan professional fighter Abdul Azim Badakhshi in Mumbai.
- She recounted that they began talking via Instagram DMs in November 2020 and spent about eight months on video calls before meeting.
- Their first in-person interaction came around an MMA event in Mumbai, followed by two weeks together in Goa and a tearful airport goodbye.
- They reunited in Delhi, decided to continue the relationship, and she then asked him to move in, leading to an immediate live-in arrangement in Mumbai.
- Shroff highlighted language and cultural differences—he speaks Persian and she speaks English, with both having imperfect Hindi—and called their bond a “mad journey” forged by an unusually strong connection.