But something shifted one evening. A group of drunk men from a neighboring village started harassing an old woman selling vegetables. Before Gippy could pull out his phone to film it for “content,” Bhawna walked over calmly.

“You want me to be your project ?” Bhawna said, arms crossed. “I’d rather wrestle a buffalo.”

Gurpreet Singh, known as “Gippy” to his 2 million followers, had never lost a bet. So when his friend challenged him to take a “simple village girl” from Haryana and make her win Chandigarh’s biggest talent hunt in a month, he laughed.

But he doesn’t mind losing. Not to her.

But her father needed money for her younger brother’s surgery. Gippy offered a fat cheque. Reluctantly, she agreed.

He drove his white Thar into the dusty bylanes of Hisar. That’s where he found her —Bhawna.