Never lets me feel burden of relationship: Taapsee Pannu on husband Mathias Boe

Actor Taapsee Pannu shared candid insights about husband Mathias Boe, revealing the one condition she had before marriage and what truly made him special.

Actor Taapsee Pannu is not one to romanticise marriage -- and that is precisely what makes her latest comments about husband Mathias Boe so refreshing. In a candid chat with Shubhankar Mishra, the actor revealed why she chose the former Danish badminton champion as her life partner, and her answer was disarmingly simple.

“He never let me feel the burden of a relationship,” Taapsee said, explaining that even after marriage, nothing felt dramatically different. “I almost forget that I am someone who is married,” she admitted, adding that her only condition before wedding was that everything should remain exactly the same as before.

Mathias Boe, a celebrated doubles specialist and Olympic medallist, may come from a different country, but for Taapsee, compatibility mattered more than geography.

According to Taapsee, it was ease. There was no emotional weight, no sense of obligation. She emphasised that she never wanted marriage to feel like a shift in identity. If the dynamic changed, she said, there would be no point in formalising it. The couple got married in 2023.

Not initially. Taapsee joked that she had “planned and plotted” to make a foreigner fall in love with her and move to India, medals in tow. But humour aside, she clarified that both of them took a practical approach. They genuinely enjoyed each other’s company and only chose to invest further once they believed it had long-term potential -- especially given the challenges of long-distance.

With realism. Taapsee acknowledged that sustaining a relationship across countries is not easy. The decision to marry came only after they were confident the effort was worth it.