15 April 2013

HINDU MAN / MUSLIM WOMAN

1. Actor Sunil Dutt married Nargis, a

Muslim. Nargis father was a Hindu. She
was named Nirmala after marriage. Their
son Sanjay is now married to Dilnawaz
Sheikh (screen name Manyata). They have
twins a boy named Shahraan and a girl
named Iqra.
Daughter Priya, a politician, is married to a
Christian.

2. Urdu author Krishan Chander married

Salma Siddiqui

3. Actor Hritik Roshan married Suzanne

Khan, daughter of actor Sanjay Khan (Actual
name Abbas Khan). They have two sons
named Hrehan and Hridhaan.
4. One of the three daughters of politician
Najma Heptullah (niece of Maulana Abul
Kalam Azad) is married to a Hindu.

5. Actor Atul Agnihotri married Alvira Khan,

actor Salman Khans Sister and Salim Khans
daughter. The couple have a daughter,
Alizeb and a son, Ayaan.

6. Actor Feroz Khans daughter Laila Khan

Rajpal married Rohit Rajpal. They are now
divorced.

7. Former Sheriff of Mumbai, Nana

Chudasama is a Hindu Gujarati Rajput. He
married a Hindu lady. They had a daughter,
Brinda. Thereafter they divorced and Nana
married Munaira Jasdanvala, a Bohra
Muslim who was also a divorcee. They
have two children- Akshay and Shaina, both
of whom are married to Hindus. Shaina is
an MP belonging to BJP.

Brinda, Nanas daughter from his first

marriage, is married to architect Alfaz
Miller, a Muslim. They have two daughters,
Ahana and Ashti.

8. Actor Sanjay Khans daughter Simone

Khan Arora is married to Ajay Arora (and
other daughter Suzanne to Hritik Roshan)

9. Actor Aditya Pancholi is married to actor

Zarina Wahab. Their children are Suraj and
Sarah.
10. Cricketer Ajit Agarkar, a Maharashtrian
Brahmin, is married to Fatima Ghadially.
They have a son, Raj.
11. Actor Sunil Shetty is married to Mana
Qadri, daughter of a reputed Muslim
architect of Mumbai. Their children are
Atiya and Ahan. Mana is daughter of I. M.
Qadri (Muslim) and late Vipula Qadri
(Hindu). Qadri and Vipula have two more
children, Isha and Rahul, both of whom are
married to Hindus.

12. Congress MP Sachin Pilot, son of Late

Rajesh Pilot is married to Sarah Abdullah,
Daughter of Former J&K Chief Minister
Farooq Abdullah. Thet faced opposition
from both families.
13. Actor Govindas father, small time
actor Arun Ahuja married Nazeem, later
known as Nirmala Devi (Govindas mother).
She is no more.

14. Zubeida, a Muslim girl from a

prominent Mumbai family was pushed into
marrying a Muslim youth in 1947. The
husband divorced her when she refused to
migrate to Pakistan with him. She later
married Hanuwant Singh, the then
Maharaja of Jodhpur. Both later died in an
unexplained air crash. She was the mother
of film critic-turned director Khalid

Mohammed (Fizaa, Tehzeeb, Silsilay).

Khalid wrote the script of film Zubeida
which was directed by Shyam Benegal with
Karishma Kapur in the title role.

15. Actor Ayesha Takias father, Nishit, is a

Gujarati Hindu while her mother Farida is a
Muslim. Ayesha Takia married a Muslim
named Farhan, son of politician Abu Azmi.

16. Bollywood Movie Director Mahesh

Bhatt had a Hindu father (director
Nanabhai Bhatt) and a Muslim Shia mother
(Shireen Mohammed Ali). But they were
never married and never lived together.
Their relationship has been portrayed in
Mahesh Bhatts film Zakhm starring Ajay
Devgan. Mahesh Bhatts two nephews,
actor Emraan Hashmi and director Mohit
Suri are Muslim and Hindu respectively.
(Emraans mother is Christian).
Mahesh Bhatt had a very public affair with
Parveen Babi. He later married Kiran. They
had a daughter, the film acress and
director Pooja and a son, Rahul. Thereafter,
they divorced and Mahesh married Soni
Razdan who is a Muslim. They have two
daughters, Shaheen and actress Aliya (seen
in the film Student Of The Year).

17. Actor Emraan Hashmi ( son of a Muslim

father and a Christian mother) is married to
Parveen Shahani, a Sindhi Hindu. Their son
is Ayaan.

18. Director/Choreographer Farah Khan

married director-editor Shirish Kunder.
They have triplets Anya, Diva (both
daughters) and Czar (son).
19. Actress Nagmas (Nandita Morarji)
father Sri Arvind Pratapsinh Morarji married
a Muslim woman, Seema Sadhana. Seema
later divorced Arvind and married producer
Chander Sadanah from whom she had two
daughters, Radhika and actress Jyothika

and one son, Suraj. Thus, Jyothika and

Naghma are half-sisters, born to a Muslim
mother. Jyothika is now married to Tamil
star Surya Sivakumar. Naghma is single.

20. Top Tamil actor Khushbu, a Muslim,

married director Sunder C after converting
to Hinduism. They have two daughters,
Avantika and Anandita.

21. Gangster turned Politician Arun Gawli

married Zubeida Mujawar who converted
to Hinduism and took up the name Asha.
They have five children, Geeta, Yogita,
Yogesh, Mahesh and Asmita. Geeta is a
corporator in Brihanmumbai Municipal
Corporation.

22. Manoj Bajpai married actor Shabana

Raza whose screen name was Neha. She
made her debut in Vidhu Vinod Chopras
Kareeb opposite Bobby Deol. Their
daughter is Ava Nayla.

23. Actor Pankaj Kapoor married TV actor

Kanwal (screen name Neelima) Azim. Her
best remembered big screen appearance
was in Mahesh Bhatts film Sadak as
Deepak Tijoris girlfriend. Parents to actor
Shahid Kapur, they are divorced now.
Neelima Azim got married a second time to
Rajesh Khattar. Their son is Ishaan. They
got divorced too.
Neelima is now married to Ustad Ali Raza
Khan, a singer.

24. Karnataka Congress MLA Gundu Dinesh

Rao is married to Tabassum.

25. Nayyara Mirza, Miss India finalist of

1967, was the first Muslim to participate in
the pageant. She converted to Hinduism
after marriage and became Nalini Patel.
She is settled in the USA.

26. Noted English writer Anil Dharkar is

married to Imtiaz, a Pakistani Muslim.

Their daughter Ayesha is an actor who
came to limelight with Santosh Sivans film
The Terrorist where she played a suicide
bomber. She is married to actor Robert
Taylor, a Christian.

27. Legendary actor Waheeda Rahman

married Shashi Rekhi, the Punjabi Hindu
actor who acted opposite her in the film
Shagun. (His screen name was
Kamaljeet). She has a son, Sohail and a
daughter, Kashvi. Kamaljeet died a few
years ago.

28. Choreographer Saroj Khans real name

was Nirmala Kishanchand Sadhu (Sindhi
Hindu). She got married at young age to
bollywood dance master B Sohanlal. They
had 2 kids, Kuku and Choreographer Raju
Khan (also director of the film Showbiz).
But Saroj did not know that Sohanlal was
already married. He abandoned her. Then
she married businessman Sardar Roshan
Khan who also was a married man. Her
children, though not Muslim, use the name
Khan.

29. M J Akbar, noted journalist and editor

of The Asian Age is a Kashmiri Muslim (His
great grandfather had converted from
Hinduism to Islam) married to Mallika, a
Hindu. His children are Prayag and
Mukulika.

30. Raj Babbar married stage actress Nadira

Zaheer, daughter of Communist parents.
Their kids are Arya and Juhi. Arya acted in
Mani Ratnams Guru as Aishwarya Rais
brother. Juhi also did a couple of films. She
was married to Vijay Nambiar but got
divorced. She is now married to TV actor
Anup Soni.

31. Actor activist Nafisa Ali, a former Miss

India, is married to Colonel (retired) Sodhi,

a Sikh (not a Hindu, please note!). She is

herself a child of a Muslim father and a
Roman Catholic mother. Her daughters are
Armana and Pia. Armana is married to Adil
Singh Akoi, a Sikh.

32. Hindi writer Nasira Sharma is a Muslim

married to a Hindu. They have two
children.
33. Yesteryears actor Mumtaz married
Mayur Madhvani, a businessman. Their
daughter Natasha, is married to actor
Fardeen Khan. Other daughter is Tanya.
Mumtazs sister, Mallika married Dara
Singhs brother, Randhawa who featured in
many stunt films of 60's. Their son Shaad
acted in the film Woh Lamhe as the
abusive boyfriend of Kangna Ranaut.
34. The ex Naval Chief Admiral Vishnu
Bhagwat who was dismissed by Defence
Minister George Fernandes under
controversial circumstances is married to
Niloufer Deshmukh Bhagwat, a Muslim.
They have a son, Jawahar (a naval officer)
and a daughter, Roshni (a doctor).
Niloufer herself is a child of a Muslim father
(Mahmood Deshmukh) and a Parsi mother.

35. Actor -singer Kishore Kumar married

Madhubala (real name Mumtaz Begum) in
1960. They had a civil marriage without
ceremony due to staunch opposition from
both families. (It is said that Kishore had
converted to Islam for the marriage).
Madhubala died in 1969 without becoming
a mother. After her death, Kishore married
Leena Chandavarkar. Their son is singer
Amit Kumar.
Madhubalas sister Zahida married music
director Brij Bhushan Sahni (films like
Milap). Her post-marriage name is
Madhur Bhushan.
36. Sir VS Naipaul, Trinidad based writer of

International reputation, is a Hindu (of

Indian origin) married to a Pakistani
Muslim called Nadia.
37. Actor Asha Parekhs father was a
Gujarati Hindu and mother, a Muslim. Her
affair with director Nasir Husain was the
talk of the town but she is unmarried to
this day.

38. Suman Chattopadhyay, a Bengali leftist

activist of Kolkata (Brahmin by birth)
divorced his German wife Maria, converted
to Islam and married Sabina Yasmin, a
Bangladeshi Muslim singer in July 2008. He
has taken the name Kabir Suman. He is
now a Trinamool Congress MP.

39. The niece of actor Raza Murad, Sonam

(actual name Bakhtawar), best known as
the Tridev girl, married Rajeev Rai,
producer and director of that film. They
have one son, Gaurav.

40. Maharashtra politician Late Hamid

Dalwais daughter married Sharad Chavan.
41. Yesteryears actor Rehana Sultan,
known for her bold, controversial films like
Chetna and Dastak in late 70s, married
producer director B R Ishara, a Hindu.
Ishara was the director of most of Rehanas
films. They have no children.

42. Social activist Shamim Modi is married

to fellow activist Anurag Modi.
43. Veteran actress Zohra Sehgal (originally
Khan) married Late Kamaleshwar Nath
Sehgal. Their daughter is famous Odessy
exponent Kiran Sehgal and and son, Pavan.

44. TV Actress Tasneem Sheikh is married

to builder Sameer Nerurkar. Her postmariage name is Tanisha Nerurkar.
Tasneem is a daughter of a Gujarati Hindu

mother and a Muslim father.

45. Late politician Rafique Zakarias

daughter Tasneem is married to Vikram
Mehta.

46. Pakistani actress Anita Ayub who

appeared in some films in 90s, got married
to Saumil Patel and is now settled in USA.
They have one son.
47. Congress MP from Assam, Rani Narah
was originally Jahan Ara Chaudhary before
she married Politician Bharat Chandra
Narah and converted to Hinduism. They
have two sons.

48. Filmmaker Tinu Anand (Also known as

Virender Raj Anand, director of
Shahanshah) is married to actress Shahnaz
(sister of actor Jalal Agha. Acted in Saat
Hindustani). Their son is director Siddharth
Anand (Director of Salaam Namaste).

49. Scriptwriter Shama Zaidi (who has

worked with Shyam benegal on many films)
is married to noted filmmaker MS Sathyu
who had made Garam Hawa starring
Balraj Sahni.
50. Roshan Ara, Daughter of Ustad
Allauddin Khan married Ustad Ravi Shankar
and became the famous Sitar Player
Annapurna Devi. Their son is Shubhendra
Sarkar. Annapurna is a Padma Bhushan
awardee. Shubhendra died in 1992.

51. Cinematographer Fowzia Fatima (works

in Malayalam industry) is married to
Pradeep Cherian. They have one daughter,
Ana Mariyam.

52. Ghazal singer Pankaj Udhas is married

to Fareeda. They have two daughters,
Nayaab and Rewa.

53. Yesteryears actress Zahida (Hussain)

who acted opposite Dev Anand in
Gambler and Prem Pujari and opposite
Sanjeev Kumar in Anokhi Raat, married Mr
KN Sahay. She is actor Sanjay Dutts
cousin. Her sons are Brajesh and Nilesh.
54. The most tragic case is that of
Producer-director Brij Sadanah (Victoria No
203). Against wishes of both families, he
married smalltime actress Saeeda Khanum,
who had acted in films like Modern
Girl(Pradeep Kumar), Honeymoon(Manoj
Kumar) and Crorepati (Kishore Kumar) in
60s. (The song Ye Mausam Rangeen Sama
from Modern Girl is still heard on radio
sometimes). Saeeda converted to become
Sudha. They had a daughter, Namrata and
a son Kamal (the lead actor opposite Kajol
in Bekhudi). Namrata fell in love with a
Muslim boy and wanted to marry. Brij
could not accept this. One day, he got
drunk, shot his daughter and his wife, and
then killed himself with the same gun.
Kamal survived as he was not at home that
time.
Kamal is now married to Lisa John and has
one son, Angath. Saeedas younger sister is
screenplay writer Shagufta Rafique who has
written recent Mahesh Bhatt films like
Awarapan and Woh Lamhe.
55. Actor Nirmal Pandey (won national
award for Daayra)was married to Kausar
Munir, one of the very few woman lyricists
working in Bollywood. They got divorced.
Nirmal Pandey is no more. Their daughter
is Sophie.
56. Veteran film and media critic Amita
Malik (a Bengali Hindu) married radio
producer Iqbal Malik. However, they
separated later. They had no children.
Amita died in Feb 2009.

57. Actress Tabassum known for her TV

show Phool Khile Hai Gulshan Gulshan on

DD is the daughter of Ayodhyanath and
Asghari. She is married to Vijay, brother of
actor Arun Govil (Lord Ram of TV Serial
Ramayan).

58. Model Feroze Gujral is the daughter of

a Christian father, George and a Muslim
mother, Viqar. She is married to Mohit, son
of painter Satish Gujral. They have a son,
Armaan and a daughter, Alaiyah.
59. Late Asif Currimbhoy was a well-known
actor of Mumbais English stage. His
daughter Nahid is married to Amit Moitra.
They have 2 daughters, Tehzeeb and
Tahini.
60. Yesteryears actress Meena Shorey
(Khursheed Jahaan), whose claim to fame is
the blockbuster hit Ek Thi Ladki (1949),
married Roop K Shorey, the producer and
director of this film. A few years after
partition, she divorced Roop and migrated
to Pakistan. Over there, she married
Pakistani actor Asad Bukhari but divorced
him too. Roop K Shorey died in 1973.
Meena died in 1987 in abject poverty. Her
funeral had to be arranged on charity
money.

61. Filmmaker Hansal Mehta (Woodstock

Villa, Chhal, Yeh Kya Ho Raha Hai) is
married to Safina, daughter of actor Yusuf
Hussain who does supporting roles in
bollywood. Their daughter is Kimaya.

62. Theatre actress Ayesha Raza is married

to actor Kumud Mishra.
63. Iconic bollywood villain Ranjeet (Bedi)
is married to Nazneen. Their daughter is
Divyanka.
64. Raam Teri Ganga Maili star Mandakini
(real name Yasmeen) was born to a

Christian father and a Muslim mother. She

is married to one Dr Thakur and has one
son.

65. Cricketer Manoj Prabhakar is married

to Farheen, an actress who was seen in a
few films in the 90s and was noted for her
resemblance to Madhuri Dixit. Their son is
Rahul.

66. Hyder Ali, writer of the film Jodha

Akbar, (also the onscreen singer of the
song Khwaja Mere Khwaja) is married to Dr
Uma Shankari.
His sister is Naqi Jehan (Nandini after
marriage to Vikram Kamdar) who was the
Miss India 1967. She also acted opposite
Rajesh Khanna in Akhree Khat.
Their parents were first Miss India Esther
Victoria Abraham (Jewish) and Syed Hassan
Ali Zaidi, who acted in Mughal-E-Azam
with screen name Kumar.

67. Elahe Heptollah, assistant director and

producer of most Nagesh Kukunoor films,
was married to cricketer Vidyut Jaysimha.
They are now divorced.

68. Journalist Shabnam Minwalla (herself a

child of Muslim Parsi marriage) is maried
to Rohit Ramakrishnan. They have three
children.
69. One of bollywoods best-known child
actors, Baby Naaz (real name Salma Baig)
was married to Late Raj Kapoors cousin,
actor Subi Raj. She won many awards for
her 1954 film Boot Polish. She was also a
skilled dubbing artist and provided voice
for Sridevi and other actresses. She died in
1995.

70. Indian English writer Amitava Kumar is

married to Pakistani Muslim Mona Ahmed
Ali. They have a daughter, Ila.
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71. Singer Shamshad Begum (Kabhi Aar

Kabhi Paar Laga Teer-e-Nazar) married
Ganpat Lal Batto. He died in 1955. Their
daughter is Usha.

72. World-famous beauty expert and

entrepreneur Shahnaz Husain married and
divorced a Muslim man. Now she is
married to a Hindu businessman RK Puri.

73. Actor Jackie Shroff is son of a Hindu

father, Kakubhai Shroff and a Turkish
Muslim mother Hoorunnisa (Rita postmarriage). Their other son, Hemant died in
childhood. Jackie Shroff has a son, Jai and a
daughter, Krishna.

74. Legendary Urdu writer Late Ismat

Chughtais daughter Seema is married to
Mr Sawhney. Their son is Ashish.

75. Actress Veena (Tajour Sultana, sister of

actor Iftekhar). married character actor TK
Sapru. Their children are supporting actor
Tej Sapru who did countless negetive roles
in 80s and 90s and actress Preeti Sapru.
76. Maharashtra Congress politician (who
has also been a minister) Ramesh Bagwe is
married to Zainab, a Muslim of Irani origin.
Their sons are Avinash and Yaser. Yaser is
married to Irani Muslim Mahdiyeh Vaseei.

77. Old-time actress Chand Usmani

married director Mahesh Kaul.

78. Late Safdar Hashmis sister Shehla

Hashmi is married to Mr Grewal.
79. Actress Aditi Rao Hyderi who played
Sonam Kapoors sister in the film Delhi 6'
and was one of the leads in eh Saali
Zindagi, is a curious case. Her maternal
grandfather is the royal Brig. Raja J
Rameshwar Rao of Hyderabad and her
fathers grandfather was the Prime

Minister to the Nizam of Hyderabad, Sir

Akbar Hydari. Her husband is Satyadeep
Misra. Her mother is Shanta Rameshwara
Rao who runs the publishing house Orient
Longman.

80. Mehelka,sister of legendary tragedy

queen actress Late Meena Kumari
(Mahjabeen Bano) married Kishore Sharma
and was renamed Madhuri after marriage.
Meena Kumari and her sisters were
daughters of a Muslim father and a Bengali
Hindu mother.
81. Late Dhrupad singer (died Aug 2006)
Asghari Bai was married to Chaman Lal
Gupta. Her children were Kamal, Ashok,
Parveen, Anju etc.

82. Tamil film director Late Jeeva (died

2009) was married to Anees Tanvir.

83. Yaman Khan, daughter of classical

singer Late Vilayat Khan (and a Hindu
mother, Monisha), was married to Raja
Bahadur Shivendra Singh. They are now
divorced.

84. Veteran singer Asha Bhosles son

Hemant is married to Sajida (Rama after
conversion to Hinduism). Their children are
son Chaitanya and daughter Anika.
85. Paki actress Noor was married to
Dubai-based NRI Vikram Seth. They had no
children and are now divorced.
86. Actress Noor Jehans half-Paki, HalfFrench granddaughter Sonya Jehan (who
played Shah Rukh Khans sister-in-law in
My Name Is Khan) is married to Indian
Hindu Vivek Narain. They have a daughter.

87. Graphic novelist Sarnath Banerjee, a

Hindu of Indian origin is married to Bani
Abidi, a Pakistani Muslim.


88. Yesteryears bollywood actress Jabeen
Jaleel married Kashmiri Pandit Ashok Kak,
once the President of Kodak India. Their
son Dwij acted in the 2005 film Saathi.
89. Malayali Hindu artist Sumedh
Rajendran is married to Masooma Syed, a
Pakistani Muslim.

90. News anchor Sehar Zaman (presently

with CNN IBN) is married to writer Dhiraj
Singh.
91. Bollywood actor Aftab Shivdasani is son
of a Hindu father, Prem Shivdasani and a
Muslim mother, Sandha.
Aftabs sister Afsana is married to a Hindu,
Amit Varma.
92. CNN-IBN Newsanchor Fatima Mahdi is
married to Gaurav Karan. Their son is
Azaan.
93. Politician and present Congress
spokesman Manish Tiwari is married to
Nazneen Shifa. They have a daughter.
94. Malayalam actress Zarina Moidu
(screen name Nadiya) is married to
investment banker Shirish Godbole, a
Maharashtrian Hindu. They have two
daughters, Sanam and Sera.

95. Communist leader Late Indrajit Gupta

married Suraiya at the age of 65. Suraiya
was previously married to a Muslim.
96. Communist leader Sitaram Yechury is
married to journalist Seema Chisti.

97. Zubeida Begum, the lead actress in the

first Indian talkie film Alam Ara, married
Maharaj Narsing Dhanrajgir Gyan Bahadur
of Hyderabad. She herself was from the
royal family of Surat. Their son is Humayun

and the grandchildren include socialite

Rhea Pillai (ex wife of Actor Sanjay Dutt)
among others. Zubeida died in 1988.

98. Priyanka Gandhis brother-in-law

Richard Vadra (Roberts brother) married
Saira. Robert and Richard are sons of a
Hindu Punjabi father and a Christian
mother. In spite of their Christian names,
they are Hindu by faith. Richard died in
2003 and was cremated as per Hindu
tradition. Saira is daughter of a Muslim
father and Christian mother. Richard and
Sairas daughter is Simran.
99. Actor Sumit Sehgal married actress
Shaheen (seen opposite Govinda in film
Mahasangram). Their daughter is Sayesha.
100. Stylist Pernia Qureishi is married to
entrepreneur Arjun Prasad, a relative of
Congress politician Jiten Prasada.
101. Legendary Marathi stage actor
Balgandharva (famous for his female roles
on stage) whose real name was Narayan
Rajhans, married actress Gohar Jan
Karnataki in 1951. This was his second
marriage, after demise of his first Hindu
wife. Gohar Jan was the sister of film
actress Ameerbai Karnataki and herself had
acted in a few films. Balgandharva and
Gohar Jan had no children. Balgandharva
had two daughters from his first marriage
and Gohar had an adopted daugher,
Ashamma. Neither converted at the time
of marriage. Gohar Jan was buried after
death and Balgandharva was cremated.
102. Dr Rubina Baskhi, the grand daughter
of Bakshi Ghulam Muhammad (former
Prime Minister of Jammu and Kashmir) is
married to Ranjit Malhotra.
103. TV actor Gajendra Chuahan (who
played Yudhishtir is BR Chopras series

Mahabharat on Doordarshan) married

bollywood choreographer Habiba Rahman.

104. Pakistani Muslim journalist Sonya

Fatah is married to indian Hindu husband
Rajiv Rao. They have one son.
105. Saba Naqvi , co-editor of Outlook
magazine, is married to Sanjay Bhowmick.

106. Celebrated Malayali soft porn actress

Shakeela married businessman PG
Satheesh, a Tamil Hindu.

107. Umaima, who is daughter of wellknown social activist from Vadodara Dr

Juzer S Bandookwala, is married to Maulin
Gajjar, a Gujarati Hindu.

108. Uttarakhand Congress leader and

MLA Kishor Upadhyayas brother Sachin is
married to Nazia Yusuf.

109. Item song girl Sanobar Kabir (cousin

of 90s actress Sonam and daughter of actor
Raza Murad) is married to actor Rajiv Singh.

110. Writer-activist Arshiya Sattar is

married to Sanjay Iyer.

111. Tamil actor director dancer Prabhu

Devaa (Now famous as director of Hindi
films Wanted and Rowdy Rathore)
married Ramalat, a Muslim. She converted
to Hinduism and was renamed Latha. They
are now divorced.

112. Mediaperson and writer Shabia

Hussain is married to Ravi Walia and has a
daughter Sia.