Actors Pankaj Kapur and Supriya Pathak have now been married for 37 years but for a long time, Supriya’s mother, late actor Dina Pathak, believed that Pankaj would leave Supriya. In a new interview, Supriya opened up about her love story with Pankaj and shared that her mother did not have much faith in their relationship, and this lasted for at least 10 years of her marriage.
In a chat with BBC News Hindi, Supriya shared that she welcomed her daughter Sanah in 1993, and then had her son Ruhan in 1997. She shared that Dina would constantly repeat that Pankaj would abandon her, and after a certain point, Supriya did not care much about her mother’s comments. “First, I had my daughter Sanah, then I had my son Ruhan. Even after Ruhan was born, my mother would say, ‘Voh chala jayega, voh tujhe chhod dega.’ I would say, ‘Abhi chhod de toh bhi chalega. Abhi main iske baare mein itna nahi soch sakti.’ But she would constantly say that he is going to leave you but we have now been together for 37 years,” she shared. Pankaj had previously been married to Neliima Azeem.
Supriya Pathak recalled how her love story with Pankaj Kapur first started and shared that they initially met for a film with director Sagar Sarhadi. “He told me Pankaj Kapur was a part of it. After I heard Pankaj was a part of it, I got tempted that if he is a part of it, then it will be a good film. I felt that my role will be opposite him but I later found out that our characters had nothing to do with each other in the film,” she recalled.
Supriya shared that perhaps, the film was only made just so they could meet each other because it was never released. “We met during that shoot in Gidderbaha, Punjab. I think that film was being made just so we could meet because it was never released. We met there and just fell in love.”
Talking about Pankaj Kapur, Supriya Pathak shared that she learnt a lot about the craft of acting from him, and sees him as her guru. “I learnt acting from him. I learnt how to perform a character. After working with him, I learnt how to act. Otherwise, before that, I was just performing. Pankaj is my guru, my teacher,” she said.
