When Asha Parekh said she loved Nasir Hussain but never considered marrying him: ‘Couldn’t break up his family, traumatise his kids’
Yesteryear diva Asha Parekh mesmerised many with the twinkle in her eyes and that fairly face when she debuted within the Hindi movie trade with the 1959 movie Dil Deke Dekho. Whereas many fell in love with the actor at first look, she liked just one man all her life, filmmaker Nasir Hussain who gave her the massive break in Dil Deke Dekho. However since Hussain was a married man, Parekh by no means thought of marrying him since she didn’t need to be a ‘home-breaker’.
Although there have been whispers about Asha Parekh and Nassir Hussain’s friendship within the Hindi movie trade, no one ever talked about it, till Parekh wrote about it in her biography, The Hit Woman. Talking about the identical, she advised IANS throughout her e book launch, “Sure, Nasir Saab was the one man I ever liked. It will’ve been nugatory to put in writing an autobiography if I didn’t write in regards to the individuals who mattered in my life.”
Regardless of being passionately in love with the filmmaker, with whom she labored on seven movies together with Teesri Manzil and Caravan, Parekh by no means needed to marry Hussain as she didn’t need to be a “homewrecker”. She discovered it “less complicated” to dwell alone all through her life than “traumatising” Hussain’s kids.
Director Nasir Hussain focus on a scene with Asha Parekh and Shashi Kapoor on the set of movie Pyar Ka Mausam. (Specific archive picture)
She advised Verve journal, “Staying alone was most likely among the best choices I made. I used to be in love with a married man and didn’t need to be a homewrecker. I might by no means take into account breaking apart his household and traumatising his kids. It was far less complicated and satisfying to be by myself.”
Nevertheless it was not like Parekh by no means needed to get married. It simply so occurred that she didn’t discover ‘proper type of males’ for herself. She advised the journal, “Make no mistake, it wasn’t like I didn’t need to get married. The truth is, my mom was very eager on it and had even assembled my trousseau prematurely. I met my share of boys however the finish end result was all the time the identical — they weren’t the proper of males for me.”
The Kati Patang actor shared that it was in her horoscope that she wouldn’t have a profitable marriage which is why her mom “additionally gave up her dream of seeing me as a bride”.
Although she now not do movies, Asha Parekh usually make public appearances at award reveals, TV actuality reveals and movie festivals. She was not too long ago seen on the 53rd version of the Indian Movie Competition of India (IFFI) in Goa the place she talked about actors missing entry to self-importance vans in yesteryears and likewise gave her two cents on Indian girls carrying western garments.
