Found this in Facebook and thought to share. Because many a time, people try to communalise inter religion marriages saying only 'Hindu' girls are married to 'Muslim' men and 'Muslim' girls do not marry 'Hindu' boys. They keep referring marriages of SRK, Amir and Saif.
So, here is a list which might break the general understanding. And I am sure there will be hundreds more. These are the names of only popular figures and the elite class. This shows it's just not an issue about men of this side or women of that side. It's about choice. They aren't fools unlike many narrow-minded. They chose it because they liked it. So, it's time to overcome all the stupid arguments and just appreciate these courageous acts.
1. Actor Sunil Dutt married Nargis, a Muslim. Their son Sanjay is now married to Dilnawaz Sheikh (screen name Manyata).
2. Actor Hritik Roshan married Suzanne Khan, daughter of actor Sanjay Khan (Actual name Abbas Khan).
3. Actor Atul Agnihotri married Alvira Khan, actor Salman Khan's Sister and Salim Khan's daughter.
4. Actor Feroz Khan's daughter Laila Khan Rajpal married Rohit Rajpal.
5. Urdu author Krishan Chander married Salma Siddiqui.
6. One of the three daughters of politician Najma Heptullah (niece of Maulana Abul Kalam Azad) is married to a Hindu.
7. Former Sheriff of Mumbai, Nana Chudasama is a Hindu Gujarati Rajput married Munaira Jasdanvala, a Muslim . They have two children- Akshay and Shaina, both of whom are married to Hindus. Shaina (popularly known as Shaina NC) is national spokesperson BJP .
8. Actor Sanjay Khan's daughter Simone Khan is married to Ajay Arora (and other daughter Suzanne to Hritik Roshan)
9. Actor Aditya Pancholi is married to actor Zarina Wahab.
10. Cricketer Ajit Agarkar, a Maharashtrian Brahmin, is married to Fatima Ghadially.
11. Actor Sunil Shetty is married to Mana Qadri, daughter of a reputed Muslim architect of Mumbai.
12. Congress MP Sachin Pilot, son of Late Rajesh Pilot is married to Sarah Abdullah, Daughter of Former J&K Chief Minister Farooq Abdullah.
13. Actor Govinda's father, small time actor Arun Ahuja married Nazeem, later known as Nirmala Devi (Govinda's mother).
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. Director/Choreographer Farah Khan married director-editor Shirish Kunder.
16. Gangster turned Politician Arun Gawli from Mumbai married a Muslim lady named Ayesha who later took up the name Asha.
17. Manoj Bajpai married actor Shabana Raza whose screen name was Neha. She made her debut in Vidhu Vinod Chopra's 'Kareeb' opposite Bobby Deol.
18. 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.
19. Noted English writer Anil Dharkar is married to Imtiaz, a Pakistani Muslim. Their daughter Ayesha is an actor who came to limelight with Santosh Sivan's film 'The Terrorist' where she played a suicide bomber.
20. Legendary actor Waheeda Rahman married Shashi Rekhi, the Punjabi Hindu actor who acted opposite her in the film 'Shagun'. (His screen name was Kamaljeet).
21. Choreographer Saroj Khan 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').
22. Raj Babbar married stage actress Nadira Zaheer, daughter of Communist parents.
23. Actress – activist Nafisa Ali, a former Miss India, is married to Colonel (retired) Sodhi, a Sikh .
24. Hindi writer Nasira Sharma is a Muslim married to a Hindu.
25. Yesteryear's actor Mumtaz married Mayur Madhvani, a businessman. Mumtaz's sister, Mallika married Dara Singh's brother, Randhawa who featured in many stunt films of 60′s.
26. The ex Naval Chief Admiral Vishnu Bhagwat is married to Niloufer .
27. Actor-singer Kishore Kumar married Madhubala (real name Mumtaz Begum) in 1960. Madhubala's sister Zahida married music director Brij Bhushan Sahni .
28. Sir VS Naipaul, Trinidad based writer of International reputation, is a Hindu (of Indian origin) married to a Pakistani Muslim called Nadia.
29. Actor Asha Parekh's father was a Gujarati Hindu and mother, a Muslim.
30. 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.
31. Soha Ali Khan is married to Kunal Khemu.
{PS: This note is not mine. I just added one or two. Neither, I claim that all facts will be right. There might be one or two mistakes but since the names are of popular domains, it seems mostly we know and might be correct}
Thanks & Regards:
Abu Saleh
PhD Research Scholar @ Centre for Comparative Literature (CCL)
School of Humanities, University of Hyderabad (UoH), India.
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