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Mumbai: Acid attack survivor Lalita Benbansi’s love story and wedding photos have gone viral on social media.
Some two months ago, a young girl named Lalita Benbansi received a call from a wrong number. This one call bloomed into a love story that social media cannot seem to stop gushing about today.And you cannot quite blame them. It is a beautiful story.

Lalita, a 26-year-old resident of Kalwa, Mumbai, was supposed to get married to a different man in 2012. But the ceremony was cut short when Lalita’s cousins attacked her with acid, owing to personal enmity. The acid burnt most of Lalita’s face, due to which she had to undergo 17 surgeries at the Bombay Hospital and Masina Hospital in Mumbai.

As her treatment continued, Lalita, around two months ago, received this particular call from an unknown man named Rahul Kumar. As luck would have it, the two met, fell in love, and decided to get married.

And they did. Photos of their wedding were posted on social media, which soon went viral along with their touching love story.

"[I] did not know a wrong number would change my life," an ANI report quotes a newlywed Rahul Kumar, a 27-year-old CCTV operator from Malad.

"I am feeling very happy. I had never thought that I would ever get married. He, even after knowing about the truth, still remained on his decision to marry me," said an overwhelmed Lalita.
Saahas foundation, an NGO helping Lalita with her rehabilitation, said that many people from the film industry came forward to help Lalita and Rahul with their story book wedding.

Reports have it that actor Vivek Oberoi has offered to gift Lalita an apartment in Thane, while designer duo Abu Jani and Sandeep Khosla gifted her trousseau and a wedding necklace.

"I wish they stay happy together. He (Rahul) loves her truly. He was telling me that their love story is filmy. It was a wrong number and then they became friends. Now they are starting a new life. Lalita is a strong girl. I met Lalita when we had an awareness programme held by Sahas foundation," said Vivek Oberoi.

 Two weeks ago, Maharashtrian businessman Rushikesh Kadam visited a mango festival in Parel, and while browsing the exhibition for varieties of the fruit, he noticed the disfigured face of a vendor at the Saahas Foundation stall. Twenty-six-year-old Lalitaben Bansi had been the victim of an acid attack in Azamgarh, UP. As Kadam inquired about her circumstances, he learnt that Lalita was due to wed her suitor, Rahul Kumar, a 27-year-old CCTV operator from Malad, whom she met after he accidentally dialled her phone as a wrong number. The conversation picked up over the past two months and the couple decided to marry. Kadam says, "I decided right there that me and my friends, who run a group named Udyami Maharashtra, would fund their wedding ceremony. Lalita and Rahul will tie the knot at D’Silva Technical Institute in today Shivaji Park Tuesday evening." The marriage will be registered at Thane court at today 10.00am. How Sonali Mukherjee of Jharkhand had found happiness with engineer.