Sha mila
Tago e
a d
fo me
I dia
c icket
captai
Ma soo
Ali
Kha
Pataudi’s
daughte
Saba
Pataudi
has
bee
away
f om
the
limelight
while
he
b othe
Saif
Ali
Kha
a d
siste
Soha
Ali
Kha
became
acto s
a d
a e
mo e
well
k ow .
But
Saba
is
k ow
to
have
he
ow
i dividuality,
is
quite
i tellectual
a d
fa s
love
the
a ecdotes,
photos
sha ed
by
he
o
the
g am
featu i g
the
Pataudi
family.
I
a
ece t
i te view,
she
has
ope ed
up
o
he
pa e ts’
i te faith
weddi g
a d
the
thi gs
they
imbibed
as
child e
f om
them.Saba
said
she
has
always
felt
a
st o g
co ectio
with
Islam
a d
desc ibed
he self
as
a
eligious
pe so .
“Fo
me,
I
would
say
my
eligio
is
Islam,
a d
I
do
co ect
with
it.
A d
I’m
spi itual
because,
if
I
we e
to
thi k
of
a
God,
I
would
p obably
say
Allah.
That
does ’t
mea
that
I
do ’t
espect
othe
eligio s,
of
cou se
ot,”
she
said
i
a
co ve satio
with
YouTube
cha el
Big
Bollywood
Buffs.Saba
explai ed
that
Sha mila
co ve ted
to
Islam
afte
ma yi g
Ma soo
Ali
Kha
Pataudi
a d
subseque tly
i t oduced
thei
child e
to
the
faith.
Acco di g
to
Saba,
he
mothe
wa ted
he
child e
to
have
a
spi itual
fou datio
while
leavi g
them
f ee
to
decide
what
they
ultimately
believed.“Whe
Amma
a d
Abba
got
ma ied,
Amma,
i
fact,
did
co ve t
to
Islam
a d
did
guide
us
i
Islam,
pe haps
so
that
we
would ’t
be
co fused
a d
would
have
some
so t
of
g ou di g.
So
the e
was
o
temple,
the e
was
o
Hi du
eligio
that
we
p actised.
I
fact,
she
taught
me
my
faith
a d
gave
me
a
u de sta di g
of
Islam,
Ramza
a d
thi gs
like
that.
A d
the
it
was
ou
choice
what
we
wa ted
to
follow.”Saba
added
that
eligio
was
eve
fo ced
upo
he
o
he
sibli gs,
Saif
Ali
Kha
a d
Soha
Ali
Kha .
“It’s
ot
somethi g
I
thi k
my
fathe
o
mothe ,
o
a ybody,
would
have
imposed
o
a y
of
us,”
she
said.She
also
poi ted
out
that
he
sibli gs
we t
o
to
have
i te faith
ma iages,
eflecti g
the
family’s
b oade
app oach
to
faith.
“My
sibli gs
a e
i
i te faith
ma iages,
I
do ’t
thi k
a ybody
is
followi g
a ythi g
ve y
st ictly.
But
I
thi k
faith
is
somethi g
that’s
ve y
pe so al.
It’s
ot
somethi g
that
a ybody
ca
impose
o
a yo e.
It’s
you
choice
what
you
tu
to,”
she
said.Despite
bei g
aised
with
a
u de sta di g
of
Islam,
Saba
ecalled
that
he
childhood
home
emb aced
celeb atio s
associated
with
seve al
eligio s
a d
commu ities.
“We’ve
g ow
up
celeb ati g
Ch istmas,
Diwali,
Holi,
eve ythi g.
My
pa e ts,
I
thi k,
have
eve
imposed
a y
pa ticula
eligio .
A d
I
thi k
that’s
fai .
I
thi k
that’s
also
somethi g
eve y
pa e t
should
do
with
thei
child.”Sha mila
Tago e
has
p eviously
spoke
about
he
decisio
to
emb ace
Islam
followi g
he
ma iage
to
Ma soo .
I
a
ea lie
co ve satio
with
Simi
Ga ewal,
she
eflected
o
the
expe ie ce,
sayi g,
“It
was ’t
easy
o
was
it
ve y
difficult.
It
had
to
be
faced
a d
u de stood.
You
could ’t
be
ve y
flippa t
about
it.
Befo e
that,
I
was ’t
te ibly
eligious.
Now,
I
thi k
I
k ow
mo e
about
Hi duism
a d
Islam.”Sha mila
also
evealed
that
he
husba d
suggested
the
ame
Ayesha
afte
he
co ve sio .I
a othe
i te view
with
Tweak
I dia,
the
acto
ecalled
the
hostility
the
couple
faced
whe
thei
ma iage
was
a ou ced.
Remembe i g
o e
of
the
th eats
they
eceived,
she
said,
“Bullets
shall
speak.”