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When Sunil Dutt revealed saving Nargis from fire wasn’t why he fell for her

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Sunil Dutt, a film director and actor, died of a heart attack on May 25, 2005, at his Mumbai home. Let us remember Sunil’s refusal to remove his wife Nargis off the ventilator while she was taken to a hospital in the United States on his 17th death anniversary. Sanjay Dutt, Priya Dutt, and Namrata Dutt are the three children of Nargis and Sunil. Also see: Nargis and Sunil Dutt’s Romance: When he saved her from a fire and she met her true love

After a fire broke out on the set of their 1957 film Mother India, Sunil and Nargis famously fell in love. While recovering from their injuries, they were claimed to have become closer. On March 11, 1958, the pair married. Nargis was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in the early 1980s, and he lost her soon after.

Nargis fell into a coma while in a hospital in the United States. Because Nargis had been in a vegetative condition for nearly four months, the physicians advised Sunil to switch off the ventilator. Sunil refused to turn it off, and Nargis awoke from her coma, and they returned to Mumbai. Nargis died just a few months after they returned on May 3, 1981.

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Priya Dutt recounted how Sunil changed following Nargis’ death in a 2018 interview with Filmfare. “Our relationship with our father deteriorated when mum died,” she stated. He used to be a strict disciplinarian. We never talked about movies in the dining room. He changed drastically after their mother died. He reminisced about her a lot. ‘People say I fell in love after I saved her from a fire on the set of Mother India,’ he explained. But I would have saved anyone else. I was smitten by the woman she was.”

Sunil’s acting career was as varied as his personality; he appeared in, produced, and directed movies. Mother India, Waqt, Humraaz, Padosan, Mujhe Jeene Do, Gumrah, Sujata, and Mera Saaya are just a few of his outstanding films as an actor.

 

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At seven o’clock, Raj Babbar’s daughter learnt of his liaison with Smita Patil. “I shouldn’t tell my mother about this.”

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At seven o’clock, Raj Babbar’s daughter learnt of his liaison with Smita Patil. “I shouldn’t tell my mother about this.”

Raj Babbar left his wife, Nadira, to marry Smita Patil in 1983. His daughter Juhi Babbar has recalled the time in a new interview.
Actor Raj Babbar was already married and had two children when he began his relationship with fellow actor, Smita Patil. The affair and the ensuing marriage saw a lot of controversy, given how it began. Raj Babbar’s daughter, former actor Juhi Babbar, has now opened up on the time and how she came to know about the relationship when she was just 7 years old.

Juhi Babbar on Raj Babbar and Smita Patil

In an interview with Lehren Retro, Juhi recalled how Smita Patil made a conscious effort to connect with Raj’s two children – Juhi and her brother, Arya. “My father talked and explained his marriage with Smita Patil to me when I was barely seven years old, and that’s why my memories of Smita ji are very different. She went out of her way to do things for me. I think she also had this thing that we are the kids of the person who is most special to her, and so we are special to her as well. She would show us a lot of love, always bringing us gifts when she travelled, and she would ensure that at home, we were served the food that we liked. These small memories are nice, but unfortunately, there aren’t many memories,” she said.

Juhi said she was conflicted about her impression of Smita at the time because the actor was always nice to us, but she could see that the marriage had shaken up her own family, particularly her mother, Nadira. “As a child, I knew this is the lady my father wants to be with, and he wants to make her his wife. I could see Smita making an effort towards me and my little brother, but I also knew that this was disturbing the unit that used to be, and that my mother was unhappy about it. I had that understanding—that aunty (Smita) was being so good to me, but when I go home, I shouldn’t share this with my mother.”

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Raj Babbar and Smita Patil’s marriage

Smita Patil and Raj Babbar met on the sets of their 1982 film Bheegi Palkein. Raj left Nadira to marry Smita the following year. Their son, actor Prateik Babbar, was born in November 1986. However, Smita Patil died soon after from childbirth complications at the age of 31. Raj Babbar got back together with Nadira a few years later.

Juhi Babbar made her film debut with Kash Aap Hamare Hote opposite Sonu Nigam in 2003. She worked in a handful of films over the next few years before taking a hiatus to do TV. In 2023, she returned to films with supporting roles in films like Faraaz and Farrey. She is married to actor Anup Soni.

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