Shabana Azmi dismisses her reported marriage plans with Sanjeev Kumar as absolute nonsense-Entertainment News , Firstpost

Genuine authoritative biographies on Indian actors are very laborious to return by. We await morsels on the display screen legends like Dilip Kumar, Geeta Bali and Nalini Jaywant.

The newly launched Sanjeev Kumar biography is titled The Actor We All Beloved. It’s authored by Reeta Ramamurthy Gupta and the actor’s nephew Uday Jariwala. Tragically it’s extra in regards to the numerous ladies this distinctive actor needed to marry slightly than his substantial physique of labor.

Whereas it’s a well-known proven fact that Sanjeev Kumar needed to marry Hema Malini (however she didn’t need to marry him) and that singer-actress Sulakshana Pandit was eager to marry Sanjeev Kumar (however he was not) the startling courting info within the guide on the actor who died too younger pertains to Shabana Azmi.

In accordance with the disappointingly low-angle biography, Shabana Azmi was yet one more colleague whom Sanjeev Kumar needed to marry. The biographers even recommend that Shabana was fairly taken up with the actor and needed to marry him. In accordance with the biographers, Sanjeev’s mom wouldn’t permit her son to marry a Muslim lady.

Shabana Azmi dismisses this conjectural alliance as “absolute nonsense.”

“There may be not even an iota of reality on this. Sanjeev and I very suitable co-stars in Mahesh Bhatt’s Vishwasghat, Gulzar’s Namkeen and one other movie referred to as Devta which Gulzar wrote however didn’t direct. Sanjeev and I spent hours discussing life and cinema. However there was not a touch of any romantic involvement, not to mention marriage. And the place did this communal angle come from?”

Shabana is considering authorized motion in opposition to the “fabricated melodrama.”

One wonders why the biography doesn’t concentrate on the gentler extra chivalrous aspect of Sanjeev Kumar. Jaya Bachchan who did a few of her greatest movies (Koshish, Parichay and Anamika) together with her Haribhai (Sanjeev’s nickname) remembers solely the mutual respect and nearly paternal affection Sanjeev showered on her. Gulzar’s Mausam which was a turning level for Sharmila Tagore, who received her first and solely Nationwide award for her efficiency as a hardcore intercourse employee, was initially provided to Jaya Bachchan (then she was Bhaduri). Jaya was finalized for the half and was then dropped from the movie due to Sanjeev Kumar.

Jaya had even rehearsed her scenes for Mausam. She was very excited as a result of it was a robust half and her third movie with Gulzar Saab and Sanjeev Kumar after Parichay and Koshish. It was Sanjeev Kumar who requested Jaya to step down from the venture due to the sexual vitality between the 2 characters. In a single sequence the heroine, who didn’t know that the male protagonist is her father, gives him her companies as a intercourse employee.

Sanjeev who was very near Jaya, referred to as her and mentioned, “I’d be very uncomfortable sharing such scenes with you. Both you stay within the venture or me. We are able to’t be doing this movie collectively.”

That’s when Jaya opted out and Sharmila Tagore stepped in. Sanjeev Kumar confirmed the utmost respect in the direction of Sharmila. She remembers him as being very protecting whereas capturing in outside areas. They might get collectively in his lodge room after capturing. After two drinks he would inform her to go away his room as he didn’t need to behave inappropriately together with her.

Sadly Sanjeev Kumar died earlier than he may discover his life associate. However to make him sound like a womanizer is to do injustice to his peerless performances.

Subhash Ok Jha is a Patna-based movie critic who has been writing about Bollywood for lengthy sufficient to know the trade inside out. He tweets at @SubhashK_Jha.

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