Govinda forbid wife Sunita Ahuja from wearing short clothes after marriage, wasn’t present for the birth of his first child: ‘I’m from Bandra, you’re from Virar’

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Reflecting on her relationship with Govinda, she said, “If there’s anyone other than his mother that he loves, it’s me. I’ve been with him since before he was a megastar. I’ve been with him through thick and thin, through good days and bad. There must be a reason we’ve stayed together for 40 years, otherwise when do you hear of relationships that last this long these days?”

She said that she was very young when they got married, and almost immediately became busy with her children. Govinda, meanwhile, didn’t slow down when it came to his professional commitments. “When our daughter was born, he’d scheduled five shifts on that same day. My mother-in-law was there with me, and after every shift, he’d check in and ask if the baby had been born. When he was at his third shift of the day, Tina was born. I didn’t realise how big a star he was,” she said, adding that for the first year, they kept their marriage a secret.

“There was a belief back then that a hero’s stardom can get damaged if he goes off the market,” she explained. “This was the trend in those days, who cares? But when Tina was born, of course everybody came to know.” Govinda and Sunita tied the knot in 1987; they have two children, daughter Tina and son Yashvardhan.