Former actor and politician, Shatrughan Sinha and his wife Poonam Sinha were married in 1980 and are parents to Sonakshi, Luv and Kush. The couple recently appeared on a music reality show, where a contestant complimented Shatrughan by calling him handsome, reports HT.
That was when he candidly joked that Poonam may disagree. He then spoke of how her mother (his late mother-in-law) had deemed him unfit for Poonam at first on the basis of his complexion. He recalled the time he sent a marriage proposal for her, and said his mother-in-law rejected him.
“Main apni shaadi ke liye proposal bheja tha. Toh meri late and great mother-in-law ne, unhone mujhe nakaar kar di tha, ek dum reject kar diya tha,” he said.
A candid photo of me and my better half. This was taken when we visited the sets of Indian Idol recently. You watch us on it on @SonyTV at 9 30 PM tonight. pic.twitter.com/mteMb0w5x0
— Shatrughan Sinha (@ShatruganSinha) July 4, 2021
“Wo kehte the ki main apni beti se shaadi karau, ki meri beti itni gori-chiti sundar hai. Tumhara bhai itna kaaliya hai… Inn dono ko khada karke coloured photograph bhi kheechege toh black and white ka effect aayega. Ye kehke reject kar diya tha,” he shared.
Sinha also spoke of a time when he napped while a script was being narrated to him by Subhash Ghai.
He reportedly said, “A very good friend of mine — family friend and wife’s brother — Subhash Ghai, who was a newcomer back then, narrated the script of Kalicharan to me. But in the middle of the narration, I dozed off! Although it happened, the complete truth is that the script narration took place at about 3 to 4am.
“I had just returned after completing three to four movie shifts. By the time I reached home, it was already 2am. Still, I immediately freshened up and met him at 4am sharp. I was so tired that I partially dozed off during the narration,” Sinha adds.
“But during the shooting of this movie, I gave my full support to Subhash Ghai and apart from this film I did three more with him,” he concludes. Well, ‘Kalicharan’ went on to become a remarkable movie that brought Sinha as well as his leading lady Reena Roy in the limelight.
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