Back in 1968, when Bollywood actress Sharmila Tagore decided to tie the knot with cricketer Mansoor Ali Khan in an interfaith marriage, it didn’t go down well with a particular segment of society. Years passed, and then their son, Saif Ali Khan, and daughter Soha Ali Khan, also married for love, and didn’t think about the religious background of their respective partners. Saif Ali Khan got married in 2012 to Kareena Kapoor, and Soha Ali Khan, after being in a live-in relationship with Kunal Khemu, got married to him in 2015. And be it the 60s or the 2000s, each time, the interfaith marriage ruffled some feathers. Speaking about it in a recent interview, Soha Ali Khan shared that the noise has always been around, and during Saif and Kareena’s marriage, people said the strangest things like ‘Ghar Wapsi’ and ‘Love Jihad.’
Soha Ali Khan recalls the hate Saif Ali Khan and Kareena Kapoor Khan’s wedding recieved
Speaking on the subject, Soha, in her interaction with Nayandeep Rakshit, shared that people have always expressed their discontent. She elaborated on the strangest comments and phrases used by haters when Saif and Kareena got married. However, the ‘Chorii 2’ star mentioned that it doesn’t bother her, as everyone has their own opinion. “I don’t think it got to me because I feel like as long as the people who I love and who I care about and I respect are on the same page as me, it’s okay. There’s going to be lots of haters, there’s going to be lots of voices, and that’s also okay. I am fine with everyone having an opinion and that’s all fine,” she said and continued, “So I think these things like… interfaith marriage, even when Kunal and I got married, even when Kareena and bhai got married there were lots of strange things – Love Jihad, Ghar Wapsi, all kinds of weird headlines were being made as well. You know, ‘you took one of ours, now we will take one of yours’.”
Soha Ali Khan believes the world today is more intolerant
The actress further compared the present world to the 60s, the time when her parents got married. According to her, the present world is more extreme. She shared, “I feel like some people don’t even believe these things, but people just say things, just to be sensationalist, but… In many ways, perhaps, it was a more freeing time in the 60s.” “And in certain ways, we have become, as you can see all over the world, people have become a little intolerant, a little more extreme, a little more inward thinking,” she concluded. Go to Source
