Virat Kohli and Anushka Sharma announced to the world that they were expecting a child in January 2021 on their social media platforms and their post immediately resulted in a groundswell of positivity on social media. In a year that has been plagued by the pandemic and seen online platforms mostly discussing about what’s wrong in this world, Virushka’s announcement flipped the switch immediately. This level of positivity and goodwill has not been seen this year and we can maybe handpick the number of momentous occasions in the last 10 years when such positivity and celebrations erupted in India.
The pregnancy announcement post in just 24 hours clocked 15.3 million likes on Instagram, becoming the most likes celebratory/announcement image! It will be interesting to see how many likes the image finally generates on this platform in the next few days. Just to give context, Gigi Hadid’s pregnancy photo got the highest like of 8.2 million, Justin Bieber’s engagement to Hailey Baldwin got 13.4 million likes, Selena Gomez’s Florence vacation image got 14.2 million, Selena and friends on vacation got 14.5 million, Dwayne Johnson’s wedding photo got 14.6 million!
Virushka, easily the most-powerful couple of India, are also the most-loved celebrity pair. The two are vocal, conscious, thought-leading citizens of the country who lead by example and both in their own, unique way, push the envelope in their fields of work. Their wedding was the most-talked about wedding that India has ever seen. People were engulfed by the realness of their marriage and relationship when the images of their wedding broke the internet. It is who they are as individuals and as a couple that people cherish the most.
Almost the entire cricketing fraternity and the whole of Bollywood have poured their best wishes for Virushka as their pregnancy announcement again broke the internet. Maybe, India needed this ray of hope, this piece of positive conversation to change the sentiment and again believe in ‘hope’ and ‘goodness’. As of now, it’s time to celebrate this announcement because it is the only good news of the year and maybe the only one that we will witness for many more months to come. Virushka have again managed to give India and Indians a lot to cheer and cherish.