After Madhuri Dixit and Tim Cook, Paytm CEO Vijay Shekhar Sharma shares vada pav with Dr Nene

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Bollywood actress Madhuri Dixit’s husband Dr Sriram Nene was seen enjoying ‘vada pav’ with Paytm CEO Vijay Shekhar Sharma at South Mumbai’s iconic vegetarian restaurant, Swati Snacks

Sriram Nene, Paytm’s
CEO eating vada pav 

Dr Sriram Nene tweeted, “Our vada pav moment at Swati Snacks. The company was what made the experience” 

Sriram Nene’s
‘Vada Pav moment’
after Madhuri Dixit

Paytm’s Vijay Shekhar Sharma re-tweeted Sriram Nene’s tweet as he wrote, “I call it poor men's vada-pao moment” while hinting at the viral picture of Bollywood actress Madhuri Dixit and Apple CEO Tim Cook relishing the Maharashtrian snack recently 

Paytm’s VSS and Sriram
Nene eat vada-pav; In pics

During Tim Cook’s visit to India to launch Apple BKC store in Mumbai and Apple Saket store in Delhi, Madhuri Dixit treated him to vada pao at Mumbai’s Swati Snacks

Madhuri Dixit, Tim Cook
eat vada pav

Madhuri Dixit tweeted, “Can’t think of a better welcome to Mumbai than Vada Pav!”

Madhuri Dixit eating
vada pav with Tim Cook

Dr Sriram Nene’s tweet got multiple reactions from netizens. One of them wrote, “Nene-Dixit duo should be appointed Global Vada Pav ambassadors @MadhuriDixit. Big boost to domestic and international tourism.”

Dr Sriram Nene, Vijay
Shekhar Sharma’s tweet:
Reactions

Paytm Founder and CEO Vijay Shekhar Sharma’s re-tweet has already been viewed by over 60k Twitter users. A Twitter user wrote, “A vada pao moment is a moment. Sirf ehsaas hai yeh. Isko koi naam na do (Vada pao moment is a feeling, let us not name it).”

Vada pav with Vijay
Shekhar Sharma, Dr Nene

Reliance Industries Chairman and billionaire Mukesh Ambani had earlier shared his love for Swati Snacks. He said he has to have food from the place at least once every week when in the city

Swati Snacks: A favourite of Mukesh Ambani

Mumbai’s famous vada pav was ranked as the world’s 13th-best sandwich by Taste Atlas. It received a rating of 4.4

Vada Pav: World's
13th-best sandwich 

Vada pav is said to have been invented by Ashok Vaidya, a street vendor who worked close to the Dadar train station in the 1960s and 1970s. He considered a solution to feed the hungry staff and came to the conclusion that the ideal food should be transportable, reasonably priced, and simple to make

The story of vada pav