Archana Puran Singh ‘fainted’ when she learnt Parmeet Sethi was 7 years younger than her: ‘I was apprehensive’

While discussing their dating days, Archana revealed that she never thought this relationship was headed anywhere serious. She said, “Back at that time, female stars who would get romantically linked up didn’t used to have very successful careers. We were having a fling, and we didn’t know if it was going somewhere — we didn’t know that it was going to turn into marriage.”

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The other big reason which laid a seed of doubt in Archana’s mind was Parmeet’s age. The two have a 7-year age gap between them, with Parmeet being the younger one. However, this truth didn’t come out for quite some time. Archana said, “First of all, he was so much younger than me. I got to know this much later, and he didn’t seem younger to me by appearance. I used to think that he was the same age. No one asks the age of the person the first time they meet them. I asked him much later, ‘How old are you?’ Then he told me that he’s 5 years younger than me, and I was shocked. It was impossible to think of marrying an older girl at that point.”

Archana admitted that despite the love, she did feel a little apprehensive about marrying someone younger. “Then after some time had passed he told me that he’s six years younger to me. I fainted after hearing that and I kept telling myself that if he were any younger, I would break this off. Later, he revealed that he’s seven years younger than me. It took me some time to accept the fact that I am in a relationship with someone who’s 7 years younger than me. I was a little shocked and a little apprehensive,” said Archana.

Parmeet defended himself and said that he was “mature for his age.” Archana agreed and pointed out that he had started working at the age of 17. The two laughed about the incident some more as Archana concluded by saying that she “listened to her heart”.

Archana and Parmeet got married in 1992 and kept their marriage under wraps for the first four years.