Gauri Khan claimed that because Shah Rukh Khan was from a different faith and she was still relatively young, her parents opposed the marriage.
Gauri marrying SRK
Gauri Khan, who is happily married to Shah Rukh Khan, once faced the challenge of persuading her parents about their marriage. SRK was a Muslim by religion and he was going to be an actor.
Recalling the memories, Gauri told Abu Jani and Sandeep Khosla on their show First Ladies in 2008 that her parents were clearly not in favor of their marriage. She shared that they were very young and then to take a decision to get married to a person who is going to join films, and being from a different religion was difficult.
The star’s wife recalled that they changed Shah Rukh’s name to Abhinav so the parents could feel that he was Hindu. “We changed his name to Abhinav so they feel he is a Hindu boy but that was really silly and very childish,” she recalled.
The confusion of religion
Gauri and SRK had been dating for a few years when they got married. The couple then welcomed their children – Aryan, Suhana, and AbRam. At the time of this interview, AbRam wasn’t born. Gauri spoke about their kids celebrating the festivals of both religions and said that for the kids, it is all “fantastic.”
“When it’s Diwali, I lead the pooja and the family follows and on Eid, Shah Rukh leads, and we follow. I think it’s all very beautiful and the kids accept. In fact, my children are more inclined toward whatever Shah Rukh would say. For them Diwali, Eid, all are fantastic,” she said.
Earlier, Shah Rukh Khan, talking to Outlook Turning Points in 2013, spoke about his children’s religion and said, “It will also keep my two children completely confused. Sometimes, they ask me what religion they belong to and, like a good Hindi movie hero, I roll my eyes up to the sky and declare philosophically, ‘You are an Indian first and your religion is humanity”, or sing them an old Hindi film ditty, “Tu Hindu banega na Musalmaan banega – insaan ki aulaad hai insaan banega” set to Gangnam Style.”
Meanwhile, Aaryan will be making his debut as a writer in an upcoming web series, and Suhana will be following her father’s footsteps and venturing into acting. She is making her debut with Zoya Akhtar’s ‘The Archies’.
Shah Rukh, on the other hand, has projects like Atlee’s ‘Jawan’ and Rajkumar Hirani’s ‘Dunki’ in his pipeline.
