When Sharmila Tagore met Tiger Pataudi

Brut India

“After meeting Tiger… this is the time to get married.” Sharmila Tagore recounts how she decided to marry Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi.

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00:00It was part of my nikah nama to say you will not discuss cricket ever.

00:06I don't want to get married when I'm too old.

00:08I was young, I thought I had a nice figure.

00:10And talking about my husband, he was not very judgmental.

00:30You were fond of cricket.

00:46Yes.

00:47That's ultimately how you met a cricketer.

00:49But you see the transformation of cricket.

00:52From the Sunil Gavaskar's and the Ajit Wadekar's.

00:56I don't think I'm qualified to talk about cricket.

00:59It was part of my nikah nama to say you will not discuss cricket ever.

01:06So I think that stays.

01:08You bucked the trend even in your personal life.

01:10Because when you met him, you lived with him.

01:13And then later you got married.

01:16And I'm told that when in Paris, evening in Paris was being shot,

01:24he came to Paris and that's the time when he proposed to you.

01:28By being, what's the word, what did you say?

01:33Proposer.

01:34Being proposed in Paris.

01:36That's bucking the trend.

01:37It is.

01:38Those times.

01:39We are talking about those times.

01:40Yes.

01:41Well, I think being an actor perhaps I always had a sense of timing.

01:46I felt that, you know, after meeting Tiger, being with him for a while,

01:55I said this is the time to get married.

01:58You know, I don't want to get married when I'm too old.

02:01It's true.

02:02This is the time to, and I did.

02:05We did.

02:06Then later again.

02:07You gifted him a Mercedes.

02:09That's bucking the trend.

02:10Well, that was not then.

02:12It was later.

02:13It was, I don't know, sometime later.

02:16No, I think it was sometime before.

02:18Okay.

02:19Sometime before.

02:22And those days the Mercedes was one lakh of rupees.

02:25That's what I'm saying.

02:26It had a little bar.

02:27It had a little this, that and the other.

02:29And those days you couldn't buy a car directly.

02:34Yes, of course.

02:35There was something called SIT or something.

02:37You had to get the approval.

02:38Approval from them.

02:39So it was a completely different time.

02:52I mean, look at your avishkar, look at Aradhana.

02:57You always buck the trend.

02:59And look at the splash you made.

03:02Not with intention.

03:05I agree, I agree.

03:06How understanding your husband was.

03:08People looking back sort of have a different idea.

03:12But when you're living in the present, it's something else.

03:15But 10 years on, perhaps this moment will be viewed differently.

03:20So that happens.

03:21You have to have the staying power to experience that.

03:26And talking about my husband, he was very different.

03:30Yeah, I have no doubt about it.

03:32Very little perturbed him.

03:34He was extremely supportive.

03:36He was a very calm person.

03:38He didn't take, he was not very judgmental or judging others.

03:44His response to that, that you must be looking nice.

03:48He was, of course, far away in London.

03:50He didn't realize what was happening here.

03:52Again, I believe, questions were asked in Parliament.

03:55I had no idea that it was going to cause such a scrap.

03:59As I was young, I thought I had a nice figure.

04:03You know, I just did it for a laugh.

04:06Nobody forced me to do it.

04:07Of course not.

04:08It was entirely out of my own volition.

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