Kumud Mishra on inter-faith marriage with Ayesha Raza: ‘We were disappointed by how supportive our families were’

Kumud Mishra has been in the entertainment business since the 1990s but it was only after Imtiaz Ali’s Rockstar in 2011 that he actually stepped into the spotlight. Kumud is married to actor Ayesha Raza, who was recently seen in Tu Jhoothi Main Makkaar, and in a recent interview, Kumud opened up about their inter-faith union and how their families were more supportive than they expected.

He recalled the early days of his love story with Ayesha and said that they met during a play. “I used to do play called ‘Shakkar ke paanch daane’ by Manav Kaul. She saw me and we felt something for each other. Then we worked together in Manav’s next play, and that’s how our story started. She comes from a different faith. Her outlook towards society is different but despite that, we got married and our families had a role in that. We expected them to oppose it since it was a Hindu-Muslim union but they did not oppose it, and we were quite disappointed by that (laughs). We wanted some excitement out of that,” he shared.

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Kumud shared that they would often joke about the fact that they couldn’t even elope because they were older. “We were older so we couldn’t elope and we thought that if we were younger, we could have eloped,” he shared. Kumud then spoke about their supportive families and shared, “We sometimes judge our family members quite a lot and we think of them as orthodox and closed off but when a crisis hits, it is then that you realise that they are more sorted than you. Their understanding of the world is much better than yours. Our families showed that understanding and that’s why we could get married.”

Kumud and Ayesha are parents to a son, Kabir.