Meet THIS Indian Cricketer who married ‘The Former Queen’ of Bollywood

New Delhi: All and sundry knows that there are various power couples of cricket-bollywood. All have their own love story and are talked about. Now, we're talking in regards to the love story that came up in the tip of the 90s, Former Indian Cricketer Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi and Sharmila Tagore. The love birds dated for some years and got married on twenty seventh December 1968 in a royal wedding ceremony, which was one of India’s most talked-about weddings at the time.

Talking in regards to the marriage, the marriage of the Bengal beauty, who was also one of Bollywood’s most glamorous movie stars at the time, and the Indian cricket team’s youngest captain was no longer that conventional back then, but their magical chemistry brought them together. So, move over #Virushka, because now we have a magical tale to tell in regards to the long-running love relationship between Bollywood and cricket.

How did they first meet?

In 1965, the two successful stars of their respective fields met at an after-match birthday celebration in Delhi, where they were introduced by a mutual friend. Tiger and his team were on the town at the time, and Sharmila had come to peer the match. Sharmila admitted in multiple interviews that she didn’t know a lot about cricket, and Pataudi confessed that he hadn’t seen an awful lot of Sharmila’s films. On the opposite hand, this didn’t stop them from falling for one yet one more.

Sharmila Tagore revealed, “I met him in around 1965 at somebody’s birthday celebration. There we got to chat over with one yet one more. He had an exceptionally British accent and no one would laugh at his jokes since they didn’t take into account them. So, he used to laugh at his jokes himself.”

The Bollywood actress was drawn to Mansoor Pataudi in consequence of his sense of humour. She was certain at the time that he would never intentionally hurt her. She depended on him and located him to be a true gentleman from the start.

On the opposite hand, the road to like was no longer easy. To impress the Bengali beauty, the Nawab of Pataudi had to do an awful lot of wooing. He even sent her refrigerators to impress her, but what finally worked for their love were the roses and letters, which were sent over a four-year period, that finally made Sharmila say ‘yes.’

The couple welcomed son, actor Saif Ali Khan, in 1970, daughter Saba, who's now a jewellery clothier, in 1976 and actress-author Soha Ali Khan in 1978. Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi died after combating a lung infection at the age of 70 in 2011.

Sharmila Tagore, who was launched by the iconic filmmaker Satyajit Ray in the 1959 Bengali film Apur Sansar, stepped into Bollywood with the 1964 film Kashmir Ki Kali. She has worked in an awful lot of successful Bollywood films like Aradhana, Chupke Chupke and Amar Prem among others.