BOLLYWOOD king Ranbir Kapoor was pictured looking glum last night as he posed with his wife Alia Bhatt in the wake of the "lipstick controversy".
The A-listers were spotted at Mumbai airport heading for a holiday only days after Bhatt's viral makeup video sparked scrutiny over the nature of their relationship.
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Bhatt, 30, kept it casual in an all-white tracksuit with her arm around Kapoor, 40, who was dressed in a twinning blue get-up.
As Bhatt beamed at the cameras, her husband put on a somewhat saddened show.
It comes as last week Bhatt shared how she does her makeup with her army of fans on Instagram, which includes her rubbing of her lipstick at her husband's request.
As the mum-of-one went to finish her picture-perfect look, she grabbed a lipstick to add a pop of colour to her lips.
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"I wore this to my wedding," she told Vogue. "That's how obsessed I am with this colour."
Demonstrating her technique, Alia explained: "So I have this very weird way of applying my lipstick.
"Most people put their lipstick to their mouth, I put my mouth to the lipstick. Like this..."
But bizarrely, Alia declared: "Then, I rub it off!"
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She explained her Hindi film star husband prefers her to wear a more muted tone on her lips.
Alia took fans back to the start of their relationship, saying: "We used to go out and he used to be like, 'Wipe that off', because he loves the natural colour of my lips."
Her supporters encouraged her to experiment with other lip colours regardless of her husband's opinion.
One commented: "Who the hell puts lipstick on like that?!"
Another read: ""Alia: Please blink if you're in danger."
And a third asked: "What was the point of applying the lipstick if your going to wipe it off?"
Other online users branded their relationship "toxic" and tagged him as a "controlling husband".
However, the film star also referred to her husband last week as her "happy place".
"He's my happy place cause I can be my truest, most authentic self with him," she wrote alongside a new picture of him.
She and Ranbir got hitched in a modest ceremony at their Mumbai home in April last year after five years of dating.
They then welcomed their daughter Raha Kapoor in November 2022.
Alia has stepped into her first role outside of Bollywood as she stars alongside Gal Gadot and Jamie Dornan in spy thriller Heart of Stone.
Her performance as tech boffin Keya in the new flick saw her dubbed a "formidable talent" by director Tom Harper.
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The Mumbai-born beauty is also celebrating the success of another recent project, her lead role in Rocky Aur Rani Kii Prem Kahaani.
She filmed alongside Ranveer Singh for the romcom that has outshined Barbie and Oppenheimer at the box office in India.
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