Updated On: 22 April, 2020 01:48 PM IST | Mumbai | Partnered Content
Arunabh Kumar took the plunge and announced his engagement to his girlfriend Shruti Ranjan from 2013

Arunabh Kumar with Shruti Ranjan
It seems love in the time of Corona is a thing now. Arunabh Kumar, the founder of TVF, which produced the recently hit Web-Series "Panchayat" for Amazon Prime, took the plunge and announced his engagement to his longtime girlfriend Shruti Ranjan. Shruti, who is from Lucknow and Arunabh who is from Muzaffarpur, have been together with each other, despite ups and downs for over 7 years now.
Arunabh Kumar had just started TVF, which was a garage office with a total of six people, when in the summer of 2013 he first met her. "This was the time when we used to shoot spoof videos in less than 1000 Rupees and because we could not afford actors, we used to go around requesting anyone to shoot for us. We were shooting one of our earlier videos called "Shit Engineers Say' in IIT B campus and needed a girl to shoot for one particular scene. Someone from team approached Shruti and she agreed", told Arunabh. That's how he ended up meeting her and NO they did not connect over love for acting. Shruti has no interest in acting and was pursuing her M.Sc. in Environment Science from IIT Bombay and Arunabh loved the subject and that's how they ended up breaking the ice. They started spending time together, talking about Environmental Science and meditation techniques. "I remember meeting him outside his office assuming, he would be running a proper company, but looking at the store-room type office with 4 Neel-Kamal chairs, I realized he was a struggling entrepreneur with no money, no work but only passion. I liked his ambitious nature and perseverance for doing things that he loves. He endlessly spoke of how he wanted to build and nurture great teams and in fact he only made me believe that I could drop out and pursue my passion as a career. " said Shruti Ranjan.