Sharmila Tagore, who recently appeared on the finale episode of Kaun Banega Crorepati 15, opened up about her love story with Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi (Tiger Pataudi) on the show. Sharmila shared that was she was a fan of the cricketer and he played a prank on her to ask her out. When Amitabh Bachchan asked her about how their love story started, Sharmila recalled how they first met and exchanged phone numbers.
Sharmila shared, “I was a cricket fan, not a cricket fan, cricketer fan. We met at a cricket party in Kolkata and then we exchanged telephone numbers.” The Gulmohur actor recalled that she was going to Nainital for the shooting of Yash Chopra’s Waqt when Tiger had hit a double century in Delhi. She called him to congratulate on his big success but since he wasn’t home, she left him a message.
“After a few months, in Mumbai, there was a funny call that there are five air conditioners for you from London. And at that time, all the imported things were banned. I said someone is trying to get me into trouble, I’ll go to jail. I was very flustered,” she recalled. There was a telephone number attached with the message and when she called that number, she found that this was all done by Tiger.
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“I called that number and Tiger answered, and he was laughing. It was a joke, that kind of joke. That’s how it happened. He said, ‘Can we go out for coffee?’ I said, ‘Yeah, we’ll go out for coffee.’ That was that. We never stopped,” she shared with a smile.
Sharmila Tagore and Mansoor Ali Khan got married in 1968 and stayed together until his passing in 2011. In an earlier interview with Ladies Study Group (a book club in Kolkata), Sharmila said that she liked Tiger’s sense of humour and she knew that he would never hurt her. “I met him in around 1965 at somebody’s party. There we got to talk to each other. He had a very British accent and nobody would laugh at his jokes since they didn’t understand them. So, he used to laugh at his jokes himself.” Sharing why she married him, she said, “I liked his sense of humour and I knew this man won’t hurt me on purpose. I trusted him and he was a true gentleman.”
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