Shweta Tiwari drives home a gift:

Raja Chaudhary is a happy man as he is now a proud owner of a white Mercedes, which his wife Shweta Tiwari has gifted him on the occasion of their seventh wedding anniversary on December 23.

Back in Mumbai after a holiday to Goa where the couple brought in the New Year, Raja says he was stunned when he saw a Mercedes parked in his parking space instead of their usual Corolla.

“On December 23, Shweta casually took me down and when my eyes fell on the Merc, I thought that it was someone else’s car. She was standing beside me but yet not telling me that she had bought it for me. Then I saw a red ribbon around it and it looked extremely new. I looked at her, and the love in her eyes for me said it all.”

Secret mission

Shweta decided to buy a Merc when she saw her buoyant hubby sitting behind the steering wheel in his friend’s Merc. “On December 15, my friend Anant Saxena had dropped by and he had a Merc. We all went out later, and I asked him if I could drive it.

Shweta was sitting in the front next to me and Anant was on the backseat. She casually asked me if I was enjoying driving a Merc. I said yes, and little did I know that she was secretly making a plan to give me a pleasant surprise.”

Raja says Shweta should take the Merc to shoots once in a while. “She should also have fun. It’s real fun to drive a Merc. Despite the long drives, there is no fatigue. Plus, she would enjoy driving a car even more now.

After her Lasik surgery, she does not need to wear lenses or spectacles and it’s different when you drive with and without spectacles,” he says.
Shweta breezes into the conversation and says, “I am currently driving it at
140 km/hr and enjoying every bit of it. In his heart of hearts, Raja always had a desire of having a Merc. But every time, I used to make him shelve his plan. This time, I thought that ‘enough is enough’ and now let’s have it.”
‘Black’out

Raja says that the choice of the colour was between black and white. Shweta chose white because black vehicles do not suit them. “We had a black Hyundai and met with a few accidents.

An astrologer told us to avoid black colour while buying a vehicle. It’s not that we don’t wear black, the apprehension is only when it comes to vehicles.”

Originally, the couple planned to celebrate New Year at home, without any fanfare but with the arrival of their new car, the plans have changed.

“We’ve decided to go out and indulge in some revelry. Some of our friends joined us and we returned yesterday,” he concludes.