The wife, goes the old joke, is the last to know. Of course that joke, like all wife jokes, mocks a woman for being exactly what society conditions her to be: confined by domesticity and unaware and unquestioning of her husband’s ghastly goings-ons because mera pati mera devata hai. If Mr Devata’s goings-on are revealed, then she must take the relationship to the next level yaniki from wife to character witness while Stand by Your Man and Show the World You Love Him soars in the background.

Being a chavvani bon vivant remains the definition of ishtyle for many gents, but times change and so does marriage. Never mind the wifey-hubby TikToks the couple posted in the early days of lockdown, Shilpa Shetty made impressive use of the stereotype of the wife-is-the-last-to-know, when she testified in the case against Raj Kundra saying she had no idea what he was up to as she was very busy with her own work. A new version of conscious uncoupling to a not-so-fairytale wedding.