India, Nov. 1 -- Choreographer Pony Verma's first impression of Prakash Raj was of the 'old man in a wheelchair' in the 2003 Telugu film Amma Nanna O Tamila Ammayi. After working with him on numerous films, she recalls their friendship slowly turning into love and, eventually, marriage. However, her friends and family were sceptical about her marrying the South Indian Prakash, given her Punjabi roots.

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Pony and Prakash met when she was mourning her mother's death, and he was going through a divorce from Lalitha Kumari, whom he had married in 1994. The choreographer recalled on Prema's Y...