Sunjay Kapur, Karisma Kapoor were trying to save marriage after son Kiaan’s birth, claims his sister: ‘Priya Sachdev messaged him constantly…’

Late businessman Sunjay Kapur's sister Mandhira Kapur Smith has accused Sunjay's widow Priya Sachdev of breaking his marriage with his second wife Karisma Kapoor. She said the couple wanted to fix their troubled marriage at the time.

By: Entertainment Desk

Chennai | October 6, 2025 01:35 PM IST

4 min read

Sunjay Kapur's sister has accused Priya Sachdev of breaking his marriage with Karisma Kapoor.

Mandhira Kapur Smith, late businessman Sunjay Kapur’s sister, in a recent conversation, accused Sunjay’s widow Priya Sachdev of breaking his marriage with his second wife Karisma Kapoor. Mandhira Sunjay Kapur’s death triggered a Rs 30,000 crore inheritance battle between Priya and the businessman’s children from his second marriage to actor Karisma Kapoor and Sunjay’s family.

While speaking to Vickey Lalwani, Mandhira claimed that Priya would text Sunjay constantly while he was married to Karisma. When asked if she is accusing Priya of breaking Karisma and Sunjay’s marriage, she said, “Yes, she used to message him constantly when he was with Lolo and I know this for a fact. It is as simple as men are men. He was in a marriage, working on it, trying to fix it. He was not in a most stable place to say, ‘Hey, I’m not interested.’”

Blaming Priya, Mandhira went on to claim, “But you, as a woman, when someone has had a child and another child, you have also just gotten divorced. You know how painful it is when you are with a child. How and why would you come and break another family? What kind of upbringing is this? What kind of woman is that? Are we saying today in society that it is okay? If anything, you should have stayed away, knowing that these people are working on their marriage and they have two children. You have been divorced. You have a child. You know what it is to be a single mother. Then why would you come and do this to this family?”

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When asked about the problems in Sunjay and Karisma’s marriage, she said, “There was a lot of stuff that happened that was not nice. My father wanted them to work on it. Our family listened and communicated. And Sanjay was going back and forth. He was working on getting things together. They had a second kid. I mean that doesn’t happen out of thin air, it happens when you’re working on a marriage. Had he been left alone, it would have worked out.”

Mandhira admitted that for a brief period Karisma wasn’t happy with the marriage and she had gone to Mumbai. “She had gone back to Mumbai for a certain period. She wasn’t happy, but he was working on it. We were all in talks. I know it takes two to clap, but as women, we know a man’s weaker and a woman is always stronger.”

Earlier, speaking on the YouTube channel Kin and Kindness, Priya had shared that she met Sunjay while he was commuting from Delhi to Mumbai, managing between his business and his family, who lived in Mumbai, and how the two became friends — a friendship that eventually led to their marriage after his divorce from Karisma.

Speaking about Sunjay’s marriage with Karisma, she had said, “Sunjay’s previous marriage was not a conventional marriage. He had two beautiful children from that marriage. We love them dearly and today we are one beautiful blended family.”

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