Arshad Warsi on interfaith marriage with Maria Goretti, recalls she confessed love after he made ‘good Catholic girl drunk’: ‘All her feelings came out’

Actor Arshad Warsi has been married to his wife Maria Goretti for over 25 years. He recently opened up about their interfaith love story, as he is Muslim and she is a Christian.

Arshad Warsi opened up about his interfaith love story with wife Maria Goretti

After dating each other for 8 long years, Arshad Warsi and his wife Maria Goretti tied the knot with each other in 1999. The actor, who is a Muslim and his wife is a Christian, had an interfaith marriage. After over 25 years of being together, he opened up about their love story in a recent podcast. During a candid conversation with Raj Shamani, Arshad revealed that he saw his wife Maria in a dance competition for the first time. He also recalled that while she didn’t express her feelings towards him at first, it was an alcoholic drink that made her drunk enough to confess.

Arshad shared that one of his friends initially told him to look out for a girl with a beautiful smile, during the dance competition. “We were very weird. She is a full-on, hardcore, good girl types. She goes to the church every morning, she was a good kid. I liked her because she was a good dancer, very pretty. There was a college competition and I was called to judge, I was a choreographer back then. A friend of mine told me that there’s a girl in St. Andrews, she has a very cute smile,” he said.

The actor further added, “When that college’s turn came in the competition, I was trying to spot who has a good smile amongst them. I spotted her and felt that she was a pretty girl and a good dancer. I told her that I do plays and if you feel like doing it, it would be lovely to have you. But, she said no.”

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However, Maria came to watch their play and soon became a part of it as a background dancer. “When I was doing a play in Bandra, she visited, saw us performing, and loved. So, she joined us and everything started from there. She fell in love with me, I didn’t. She never told me but her body language said so. All my friends also used to say that she likes me. When I asked her, she denied on my face,” he revealed.

It was his wife’s drunken state that made her express her true feelings towards Arshad. “Then, we had a show in Dubai once and I made this good Catholic girl drink beer. Within half a bottle, all her feelings came out. Then, we started going out and we organically got married. When I look at her, she is absolutely good, beautiful, her morals, nature, taking care of her parents, everything was nice about her. Everything you want in a girl, she had it. Only thing was that she is crazy!” he laughed and concluded.

On the work front, Arshad Warsi was last seen in the Zee5 crime-thriller Bhagwat – Chapter 1: Raakshas, which released on October 17. The actor also featured in Aryan Khan’s directorial debut show, The Ba****ds of Bollywood, portraying the iconic character Ghafoor.

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