R. Madhavan moves to Dubai to prepare his son Vedaant for 2026 Olympics

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Actor R. Madhavan, in an interview with Bollywood Hungama recently, revealed he shall be shifting to Dubai with his wife Sarita and son Vedaant to prepare him for 2026 Olympics. He also revealed the reason why he plans to do so. He said, "The larger swimming pools in Mumbai are either closed because of Covid or out of bounds. We are here with Vedaant in Dubai where he has access to large pools. He's working towards the Olympics, and Sarita and I are right by his side."

When asked if he wanted his son to be an actor or not, Madhavan said, "Never! My wife Sarita and I went along with whatever our son wanted to do in his life. He's been winning swimming championships all across the world and making us very proud."

Madhavan's latest piece of work is the web series Decoupled on Netflix. The show also stars Chetan Bhagat who plays himself, a competitor to Madhavan's character 'Arya', the second best-selling author of the town. Recently, Madhvan and Chetan engaged in a Twitter spat, which turned out to be a funny conversation on social media. The fans couldn't stop laughing when the duo took a dig at each other and ended the tweet trail on a lighter note.

Everything started when Chetan Bhagat answered the question 'books vs movies' by tweeting, "My books, and the movies based on them." R Madhavan, who shared screen space with the writer in Decoupled, said that he is biased towards films, to which the author replied, "Have you ever heard anyone ever say the movie is better than the book?"

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