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Actor and television personality Annu Kapoor spoke about his involvement in Shabana Azmi and Javed Akhtar’s wedding, which, he said, took place after midnight in Decemeber of 1984. In an interview, he said that he rushed off to a mosque in Bandra to summon a ‘maulvi’ to officiate the wedding, after Shabana and Javed had matter-of-factly agreed to it. He implied that they had been living together, and that he nudged them to make things official because premarital cohabitation was frowned upon in Indian society at the time. Javed was already married to Honey Irani, with whom he had two children, Farhan and Zoya.
In an interview with TV9 Bharatvarsh, Annu Kapoor was asked to narrate the story again. “You can say that I got them married. I was a friend of the family, and they’ve been very kind to me as well. I landed at their house, and considering the fork in the road that they were up against in their relationship, I advised them to make a decision. Either break up or take the plunge. Back then, the concept of live-in relationships wasn’t acceptable. Javed said, ‘Okay, fine, do what you have to’. I turned to Shabana, and asked, ‘Are you fine with it?’ And she said, ‘Dekh lo, Annu’. I considered her my sister, and I took that as a signal to proceed with the plan,” he said. Annu Kapoor took the late actor Kamran Rizvi with him, and went to the Bandra mosque to summon a ‘maulvi’. In the meanwhile, Boney Kapoor and other guests were called over. “The wedding took place after midnight,” he said.
In an earlier interview with ANI, Annu Kapoor had revealed that Javed was drunk on the night he decided to get married to Shabana. “He was sitting there, drunk. She was sitting elsewhere, busy reading a book. I was there, and I told her, ‘Bibi, just go ahead with it, decide once and for all’. Javed was absolutely sloshed. She said, ‘How can I decide? He isn’t ready to make any kind of decision’. I went over to him and shook some sense into him, and he mumbled, ‘Yes, I’m ready’. So, together with their driver Michael, I rushed off to the Bandra mosque to bring a maulvi over. In the meantime, Shaukat ammi took out her red ‘joda’, and called up Anil Kapoor and Boney Kapoor, and everyone came over. They danced till 4 in the morning; the wedding took place after midnight,” he said.
Shabana and Javed have both spoken about the problems that his alcoholism caused in their relationship. To make things more complicated, Javed happened to be a married man with two children at the time. “Oh it was a very, very, very tough period. I don’t think anybody knows what all the three people involved suffer. They think, ‘That’s it, kar liya.’ It is very difficult, very painful, particularly when there are children involved in it. You go through a very, very difficult period,” Shabana said in an interview with Curly Tales, praising Javed’s first wife, Honey Irani, for handling things with grace.
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