“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.
04:17.