Taarak Mehta Ka Ooltah Chashmah actors Munmun Dutta and Raj Anadkat dismissed rumours of their alleged engagement in Vadodora hours after the news surfaced online. On Wednesday, Raj wrote on his Instagram Stories and wrote, "Hello Everyone, Just to clear things up, the news you've been seeing on social media is false and baseless. Team Raj Anadkat.” Munmun told Times of India, “This news is ridiculous, fake and ludicrous. Zero ounce of truth in it. And frankly, I don't want to give my energy to this fake thing that keeps coming up again and again.”
Take a look at Raj's Instagram post:
The clarification came hours after a source close to the couple told News18 that Munmun, who played the role of Babita and Raj who featured as Dilip Joshi's son Tappu in the popular sitcom, exchanged rings earlier this month in the presence of their respective families. Talking about the ceremony, the source noted, "The engagement took place just a few days back. The two apparently exchanged rings in Vadodara (Gujarat). Munmun and Raj's families have accepted their relationship and they were also present at the ceremony.” “They have been dating ever since Raj joined Taarak Mehta Ka Ooltah Chashmah. It was very evident. Everyone on the sets knew about it. In fact, some people were certain that Munmun and Raj would get married eventually. Therefore, it is not shocking that they are engaged now,” the source added.
Earlier, Munmun and Raj had given their individual reactions on Instagram, when their dating rumours surfaced in 2021. Raj wrote, “To everyone, who has been constantly writing about me, THINK of the repercussions that can happen in my life because of your ‘COOKED UP' (false) stories and that too about my life without my consent. All the creative people out there please channelise your creativity somewhere else it will be helpful to you. May God bless them with good sense.”
Munmun shut down trolls who commented on her personal life. Her Instagram post read as, “13 years of entertaining people and it didn't take 13 minutes for anyone of you to rip my dignity apart. So next time someone is clinically depressed or driven to take their own lives, pause and think whether it was YOUR WORDS that drove that person to the edge or not. Today, I am ashamed of calling myself a daughter of India.”
Raj, 27, announced his departure from Taarak Mehta Ka Ooltah Chashmah in December 2022.