The internet erupted last weekend after rumours surfaced that filmmaker Palash Muchhal cheated on Indian cricket star Smriti Mandhana just days before their planned wedding. What started as a straightforward statement of a postponement due to her father's illness has now devolved into a tangled web of leaked communications, deleted screenshots, and endless rumour threads online.

Fans spotted Mandhana surreptitiously deleting her engagement and proposal videos from Instagram, which just added fuel to the already-burning narrative. While the pair has not acknowledged any of these claims, social media users are convinced that there is more to the official explanation.