There were rumors of Sanjay Khan and Zeenat Aman getting married in 1978. Many rumors also suggested that Khan beat up Zeenat Aman which resulted in her eye injury. At that point when Sanjay was attracted to the actress, he was already married to Zareen Khan and had children. In a recent interview, Sanjay’s daughter Farah Khan Ali strongly responded to and refuted these rumours.
While she confirmed that her father is married to Zeenat Aman, she denied that he beat her. When asked about her father’s relationship with Zeenat Aman, she said in an interview with Vicky Lalwani: “I was very young at that point, so I don’t have very strong memories. I was 9-10 years old at that time. But I just want to say that this fake story that keeps coming up on social media about my father beating Zeenat Aman and hurting her eye, is all nonsense because my father never raised his hand on my mother or any of his family members.” girls.
He is not a violent man to raise a finger at a woman. What I know is that this mother told me that Miss Aman’s mother suffers from an eye disease. Her eye was also smaller. So, it was a genetic thing that happened to Miss Aman and not what was written. My mother is the most honest person and she told me that my father never raised his hand on Zeenat Aman. So, this crap about the part where my dad hit her is bullshit. I’m glad I can say this on camera today because I want to make it clear that this is not true.
My mother, like me, never lies.” She also spoke about Sanjay Khan’s affair with Zeenat Aman, which almost broke up her parents’ marriage. She said, “Yes, it almost broke up their marriage. But my mother was a very strong woman. She gave birth to Zayed at that point and she had just traveled for three months. She left Zayed behind with my father and all of us and came back like a million dollars. And my father was like, ‘What happened there?’ And I think that was the transformation when he realized that my mother was independent and she could just take off and do what she wanted.”
She didn’t count on him and that’s what brought him back. She acted like a very lady. “My mother is not one to talk badly about anyone.” Farah denied the rumors that her mother got into the fight and hit Zeenat Aman. She said: “Do you think my mother would fight with any other woman and hit her? No, my mother is not like that. She is a very elegant person. So, this is fake news. Even when she talked to us about it, she told us: ‘Your father was attracted to her, so I don’t blame her.'”
There was attraction on both sides. Maybe at that point, something was wrong in their marriage.
But I believe when she said that my father did not hit Zeenat Aman.” She also recalled an incident and said, “I confirm this because my father never raised a finger at anyone. When he was younger, he would fight with anyone who was aggressive in front of a woman, because he believed that you should not use bad words in front of a woman.
There was a time I remember, we were in China Park one time and there was an actor, I will not take his name, but he got high and started being violent in front of women and children and my father quarreled with him.
My father is a very old school person who believes that women should be protected, respected and cared for, so I must definitely refute these rumors as nonsense.” Confirming the marriage rumors of Zeenat Aman and Sanjay Khan, she said, “Yes, it was like that at that point.
There was an Islamic way of marriage and divorce was done in the Islamic way as well. “You are asking the wrong person because I am not the traditional Muslim person who knows the rules of Islam.” Farah said she never asked her father about that. “I didn’t ask him because I didn’t feel the need to. My mother forgave him and moved on. It’s like you’re saying that when I got married, Aqeel had an affair, so my children should ask Aqeel about that affair. My relationship with my husband, my children’s relationship should not be with my husband. So, my mother’s relationship with my father should not define my relationship with my father,” she said.
