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to marry other partners. Currently though, they also went on to remarry a couple of times more.
are both also divorced from their partners. Last DEBASHREE ROY & SANDEEP PATIL
heard, Ravi Shastri was in the news as coach for 1983: The broody batsman Sandeep Patil could well
the Indian cricket team, but had apparently been claim that Bollywood was in reality his undoing.
seen on numerous occasions with actress Nimrat Post the 1983 World Cup win by the Indian Cricket
Kaur. Ravi staunchly denies any allegations of a team, Patil was offered the lead role in a Bollywood
relationship there. Amrita resumed her role as film titled Kabhie Ajnabi The (it released in 1985).
Bollywood actress post her divorce from Saif Ali Incidentally, the film also had his colleague Syed
Khan (eldest offspring of Mansur Ali Khan Pataudi Kirmani playing the villain. The story goes that
and Sharmila Tagore). Sandeep was so enamoured of Bollywood, that he
even refused to be a part of the West Indies tour
REENA ROY & MOHSIN KHAN in 1983, due to shooting for the film. Needless to
1983: Reena Roy was a very successful and say, he was in the news for all the wrong reasons.
popular actress, caught in the throes of an intense Primary amongst them being his attraction for and
but unhappy relationship with the much older chemistry with his leading lady, Bengali actress
Shatrughan Sinha who despite Reena, had Debashree Roy. Patil’s already rocky marriage bit
announced his marriage to Poonam Chandiramani.
In a bid to escape her sorrow, Reena suddenly
announced that she was marrying Mohsin Khan,
a handsome Pakistani cricketer in top form in
the eighties. They were deliriously happy in the
beginning, travelling between Pakistan, London,
where Mohsin had a home, and India, where
Reena’s family was. Reena bore Mohsin a daughter
they named Jannat, and gave up her thriving
the dust, his standing in the cricketing community
came to near nought, the film fared miserably, and
their affair was left in the cold. That was Sandeep
Patil’s first and last brush with Hindi films. It must
stardom for domestic joys. Mohsin Khan found be mentioned though, that the role of Sandeep Patil
himself an optional career when he stepped into in Kabir Khan’s upcoming film 83, is essayed by his
Bollywood and bagged a number of films that son Chirag Patil.
even fared well. His ambition grew but Reena was
unable to keep pace with him or adjust to living SANGEETA BIJLANI & MOHAMMAD
in London with him and his dual professional AZHARUDDIN
demands. They dissolved their marriage without 1990s: One of the most famous/infamous and
rancour in the early nineties, and Reena returned to successful captains of the Indian cricket team was
India with her daughter, who she renamed Sanam. Mohammad Azharuddin, an exceptional cricketer.
Mohsin Khan continued to do films long after and Sangeeta Bijlani was a successful model and an
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