Popular veteran actress, Ratna Pathak Shah recalls her first meeting with her husband, Naseeruddin Shah. Ratna and Naseeruddin are the epitome of a power couple of their time. The duo first met in 1975, and after a long period of dating and live-in period, the couple got married on April 1, 1982. Now in a recent interview, the veteran actress walked down memory lane and recalled how she met her husband for the first time. She also mentioned a piece of advice that her husband gave her that helped her ease herself into a 'blended family’.
Ratna Pathak and Supriya Pathak recently appeared on Twinkle Khanna‘s YouTube talk show, The Icons. During the conversation, Twinkle asked Ratna how she met Nasseer for the first time. Recalling the sweet memories, the actress shared that she met Nasseruddin during a rehearsal of a play. The actress then stated that Naseer was wearing John Lennon glasses, which she liked during that time. She again mentioned that he had beard during that time, and she loved beards on men then. Ratna shared:
"In a rehearsal, we were doing a play with Dubey ji and it was called Sambhog Se Sanyas Tak, covers the whole of our life story. Sanyas lena baaki hai, bass. He was wearing these great John Lennon glasses, and I like that, and he had a beard, I love men with beards.”
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Further in the conversation, Ratna added that she could never get Naseeruddin's name right as she was introduced to him by Dubey, who had got rid of a lot of his teeth during that time so that the actress couldn't get her husband's name properly, and misunderstood with the name of Shivendra Sinha. However, when Twinkle asked her whether she had ever called Naseeruddin by that name, Ratna shared that she hadn't, as her husband later introduced himself to her and the entire cast. Ratna shared:
"I didn’t even get his name right, because I was introduced to him by Dubey and by that time Dubey had got rid of a lot of his teeth so you couldn’t understand a word that he said. He named him as Naseer but I couldn’t hear him, I heard Shivendra Sinha for some reason."
For the uninformed, Naseeruddin Shah was earlier married to Manara Sikri, with whom he has a daughter, Heeba Shah. However, the brilliant actor gave his second wife, Ratna a piece of advice using which she could make adjustments at Naseer's home, where he lived with Heeba. Sharing details about the same, Ratna stated that Naseer told her it is best not to give too much name to a relationship. He also advised his wife to keep it flexible. Ratna shared that it actually worked to ease her relationship with Naseer's daughter from his first marriage. Mentioning the bonding between them developed well, Ratna then shared:
"Naseer gave me some very good advice, which I don’t think I followed, he certainly hasn’t, but I also haven’t except in Heeba’s case. (He had said) it is best to not give too much name to a relationship, husband, wife, mother, son, etc. These things become straight jackets, if you keep the relationship a bit flexible, it helps. With Heeba, it definitely did that. Both of us happened to be in a situation where we could keep it flexible. I give all credit to Heeba because she was the younger one, she was the one to make all the tough adjustments to a new world. So, we just decided to try and take it as… let’s see how this develops, from both sides. And luckily, it developed well.”
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Once in an interview with ETimes, Ratna Pathak Shah shared anecdotes about her beautiful wedding with her actor husband, Naseeruddin Shah. The actress shared that she and Naseer had a beach wedding that was a little out-of-the-box, as there were no such traditional rituals or codes of conduct usually seen at weddings. Elaborating more on the same, Ratna revealed:
"We had a fantastic wedding. Ours was probably one of few marriages that I attended, where the bride and groom both had fun. We had a ball at our wedding! We went to the beach, swam and drank wine, and had a great time. There were no rituals and no rona dhona (crying)."
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