Did Saif Ali Khan admit to being worried related to Sara and Ibrahim Ali Khan's Islamic roots after his separation from Amrita?
Bollywood actor, Saif Ali Khan was married to Amrita Singh before he found love for the second time in Kareena Kapoor Khan. Saif and Amrita's relationship was widely discussed for a long time because of their 12-year age gap and an interreligious love story. The ex-couple got married in 1991, and an old interview with the actor has gone viral in which he revealed that, after his divorce from Amrita, he was concerned about his kids, Sara and Ibrahim Ali Khan, and their Islamic roots.
A report by Idiva.com revealed that Saif had said Amrita had decided to stick to their own religions after their marriage. Saif never forced her to convert to Islam and had shared that Dingy (Amrita Singh) was never compelled to convert herself to Islam, nor was she ever forced to practice and follow the Islamic religion. However, he admitted to being worried that his kids, Sara and Ibrahim Ali Khan, may lose touch with their Islamic roots post his divorce and shared:
"So right from the beginning in our case, it was like ‘To each his own religion’ and even when my kids Sara and Ibrahim were in their growing-up stage, I strictly followed the same principle. But when we separated, I was more worried about Sara and Ibrahim, who were then in Dingy’s custody. But of course, I had trusted her enough and was very sure Dingy will never try to influence them in any which way and certainly not as far as our religion is concerned.”
Saif had also shared that he used to take his kids, Sara and Ibrahim, to the Gurudwara when he was married to Amrita. He used to call her Dingy and said that when she went for her regular prayer visits to the Gurudwara, he had the duty of babysitting and looked after the children on various occasions.
The report also mentioned that ace designers, Abu Jani and Sandeep Khosla, had earlier spoken about Amrita and Saif's impromptu wedding. They had shared how a Sikh priest, along with a maulvi, was called to perform the wedding ceremony. The wedding of Saif and Amrita had taken place at one of their friend's apartment, and Amrita had adopted the name Aziza for the nikaah ceremony. The ace designer duo, in an interview with Namrata Zakaria for her YouTube channel, spoke on the wedding and said:
"We signed as witnesses at their nikaahnama. One fine day, they came to us and said, ‘We want to get married now!’ It was Saif; Dingy was still undecided. They were in love, and he was living with her; it must have been six or eight months. He was ready for it, she was yes-no, yes-no. We lived in one room at the time. We went to a friend of ours, and she offered to host it. She was a single person, living by herself in a beautiful apartment. Abu and I were dressing up Dingy, and we called a maulvi, of course.”
The designers had also added that Amrita had got ready in whatever fit her, as there was no time. Abu and Sandeep had mentioned that Amrita from her mom had received some fantastic jewellery. Saif had worn a bandhgala, and then when the maulvi asked Amrita's name, she said, Aziza.
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