Marriage Quote by Navjot Singh Sidhu

Sidhu’s line lands because it’s equal parts confession and cover-up: a naughty truth smuggled in as a joke. “After marriage” is the pressure point. It turns the speaker’s gaze outward at the exact moment tradition expects it to settle down. The punch isn’t that other women are attractive; it’s that commitment sharpens the sense of missed possibilities. Marriage, in this framing, doesn’t end desire so much as reorganize it into comparison.

The phrase “the other man’s wife” is doing sneaky work. It avoids naming the wife as a person and instead labels her through ownership, turning attraction into a social trespass. That’s why it reads as both comedic and slightly corrosive: it normalizes a worldview where women are trophies in a male ranking system, more desirable precisely because they’re already “claimed.” The beauty isn’t innate; it’s manufactured by scarcity, taboo, and the competitive thrill of wanting what’s off-limits.

As an entertainer, Sidhu is tapping into a familiar North Indian comic register: the cheeky, roving husband, the audience’s knowing laughter, the safety of exaggeration. It’s locker-room candor dressed up as folk wisdom. The subtext: marriage can feel like a narrowing of options, and the mind rebels by romanticizing the alternatives. The context makes it palatable because humor offers plausible deniability. You can laugh, feel seen, and never admit what the joke quietly indicts: envy, entitlement, and the restless consumerism of modern romance.