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Actor siblings Ratna Pathak Shah and Supriya Pathak appeared together on Twinkle Khanna‘s YouTube talk show The Icons recently. On the show, Ratna Pathak revealed that she met her husband Naseeruddin Shah for the first time at a play rehearsal, and spoke about how she eased herself into a ‘blended family’, as Naseer already had a daughter from a previous marriage.
When Twinkle asked Ratna how she met Naseer, she shared, “In a rehearsal, we were doing a play with Dubey ji and it was called Sambhog Se Sanyas Tak, covers the whole of our life story. Sanyas lena baaki hai, bass. He was wearing these great John Lennon glasses, and I like that, and he had a beard, I love men with beards…”
Supriya, who was sitting next to her, cut her off and asked, “How many men did you know before you met Naseer?” To which Ratna replied, “Supriya, there were so many good looking guys in college, I used to drool, I had eyes.” Responding to this, Supriya said, “No!” She added, “No, you didn’t, you only had eyes for Naseer.”
Ratna then continued the story of her first meeting with Naseer, and said, “I didn’t even get his name right, because I was introduced to him by Dubey and by that time Dubej had got rid of a lot of his teeth so you couldn’t understand a word that he said. He named him as Naseer but I couldn’t hear him, I heard Shivendra Sinha for some reason.” Twinkle asked her if she called him Shivendra, and Ratna replied, “No, no, as we went to the rehearsals, Naseer introduced himself to the rest of the cast. So then I heard it is Naseeruddin Shah.”
After dating for seven years, Ratna and Naseeruddin Shah tied the knot in 1982. Ratna also spoke about how she adjusted into Naseer’s home, where he lived with his daughter Heeba Shah, from his first marriage to Manara Sikri. She shared the piece of advice that Naseer gave her to make this process smoother. He told her not to label relationships and be flexible.
She said, “Naseer gave me some very good advice, which I don’t think I followed, he certainly hasn’t, but I also haven’t except in Heeba’s case. (He had said) it is best to not give too much name to a relationship, husband, wife, mother, son, etc. These things become straight jackets, if you keep the relationship a bit flexible, it helps. With Heeba, it definitely did that. Both of us happened to be in a situation where we could keep it flexible. I give all credit to Heeba because she was the younger one, she was the one to make all the tough adjustments to a new world. So, we just decided to try and take it as… let’s see how this develops, from both sides. And luckily, it developed well.”
Ratna and Naseeruddin have two sons – Imaad Shah and Vivaan Shah.
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