Suchitra Krishnamoorthi reveals why she didn’t protest when Shekhar Kapur told her not to act

Actor-singer Suchitra Krishnamoorthi recently opened up about her ex-husband Shekhar Kapur and revealed that he wanted her to stop acting in films after they tied the knot. Now, in an interaction with Bollywood Hungama, when Suchitra was asked how a woman who ran away from her house to do films can simply step away from the industry one day and the actress replied, “Because her husband tells her he doesn’t want her to act. I also feel that if my parents were not so strict, I would have not gravitated towards films. I was a rebel. In retrospect, I don’t know… like I said.. Slavery..” She then added, “I think I just had this mad, passionate, crazy idea of love. So, when my husband said don’t act, I said ok. So, it wasn’t so important. It’s not like somebody held a gun at my head and said ‘you can’t do.’ I was so in my world, it did not matter. That’s what I wanted. I wanted marriage, I wanted kids and I wanted a family and I never thought…” When asked why she did not feature in Shekhar’s films, Suchitra said, “Kyunki yeh itne badmaash hein yeh director log, that’s why they don’t want their wives to act. Kyunki khud bohot badmaash hai.” After her separation fromShekhar, Suchitra returned to acting but recalling how disgusted she was by people’s attitude towards her, she said, “My marriage was collapsing, I had not filed for divorce yet. But I knew I need to get back home and dig my roots back. It is such a patriarchal world. Everybody kept asking, ‘Shekhar won’t mind?’ ‘Shekhar will allow you to act?’ I was so disgusted with that attitude.” For more news and updates, stay tuned to ETimes.

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