Salim Khan recalled his powerful courtship with first spouse Salma Khan on his son Arbaaz Khan’s new discuss present. The veteran screenwriter spoke about how he confronted opposition from his spouse’s Hindu household at first. After marriage, his spouse additionally modified her identify from Sushila to Salma in 1964. They would go on to have 4 kids – sons, Salman, Arbaaz and Sohail, and one daughter, Alvira. They later adopted one other daughter Arpita. (Also learn: Salim Khan on Salma Khan’s response when he informed her he wished to marry Helen: ‘She did not say I did one thing good’)
The veteran screenwriter revealed that their relationship started, at first, in secret. But he later insisted, “I would like to meet your parents.” He was not snug assembly in secret and mendacity about it to her household.
He recalled within the interview with Arbaaz Khan on his present The Invincibles, “When I went to meet them, I felt all the country’s Maharashtrians had assembled in one place. There were so many people. I have never been as nervous as I was then. Everyone had come to see me, like I was a new animal in the zoo. Many were in my favour too. My father-in-law said, ‘We have enquired about you. You are educated and from a good family. You don’t get good boys these days. Magar religion acceptable nahin hai (The religion is not acceptable).'”
Salim had replied to him that there could also be hundreds of issues between him and Salma, “but religion will never be one of them”. Arbaaz additionally shared that his mom’s identify was initially Sushila and he or she modified it after marriage to Salim. He additionally requested his father how his identify modified from Salim to Shankar within the household. “Her grandmother, who was called Ajji, she was the only person in the family who was in support of me. She used to wait and say, when will my Shankar come?” Salim mentioned.
In 1981, Salim married the actor-dancer Helen in a second marriage. While it was tough at first, the household has adjusted to her now and the kids all known as her Helen Aunty. Arbaaz will even be interviewing different celebrities from the golden age of Hindi cinema together with Helen, Javed Akhtar, Mahesh Bhatt and Waheeda Rehman.
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