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This actress was considered one of Bollywood's boldest woman, known for her romance with Rajesh Khanna, she converted to Muslim to marry this star. Published: April 11, 2025 4:14 PM IST By Edited by Bollywood actress Sharmila Tagore was one of the top heroines of her time. At the peak of her career, she married cricketer Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi.
Their love story is no less than a film. Recently, daughter Soha Ali Khan said that when Sharmila Tagore decided to marry Mansoor Ali Khan, people said that this was a professional suicide. People also said that she was making the biggest mistake of her life.
While talking on Nayandeep Rakshit’s YouTube channel, Soha Ali Khan said that her mother Sharmila Tagore started working in films at just 13. She said, ‘She started earning from the age of 13. She was working in films, which was not considered good then.
She decided to marry a person of another religion by listening to her heart. All her life she was asked how her husband permitted you to work after marriage. And she used to say “What is the meaning of permission? My father was open-minded.
He broke the traditions.” Played the role of mother in Rajesh Khanna’s film Soha Ali Khan said that when Sharmila was working, the female characters in films were either heroine or mother. She said, “In her time you were either a heroine or a mother.
In between you did not know what to do. She always liked to do new things.” Soha said that even when Sharmila played the lead role with Rajesh Khanna in the film Aradhana, she had a part in it where she played the role of his mother.
Her hair was grey and she had put on a ton of makeup, while she was about 26 years old at that time. Soha further said that her mother, Sharmila Tagore decided to marry Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi at the age of 24, who was from a different religion. At that time people said that this would be professional suicide.
Still, she only listened to her heart. Soha Ali Khan said, “She always did what she wanted to do. At the peak of her career, she decided to marry my father and everyone said this is like professional suicide, how can you do this? She said I don’t care, I am doing this and she continued working.
” Sharmila and Mansoor stayed together for 43 years. However, Mansoor Ali Khan died in 2011. For breaking news and live news updates, like us on or follow us on and .
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