Happy birthday Helen: The dancing diva of the 50s and 60s fell in love with Salim Khan for this reason

Love works in unusual methods and eventually finds its method. Nothing might be extra true for actor Helen and Salman Khan’s father, scriptwriter Salim Khan. On her 82nd birthday on Friday, right here’s a recent have a look at their love story.

Salim was a married man with kids when he determined to marry actor Helen in 1980. He was 45 and she or he was 42, not essentially the most standard age to marry. But theirs was a relationship that was cemented by time. Marriage simply made it a proper and gave them society’s approval.

   

Born in 1935, Salim got here to Mumbai (then Bombay), aged 23, to turn out to be an actor. After a number of years within the metropolis, he married Sushila Charak, whom he had courted for a number of years, in 1964. A yr later, Salman was born. However, it was round this time, he met and labored with Helen, well-known for her vamp roles and dances in Bollywood motion pictures by way of the 1950s and 1960s. In the course of their affiliation, they fell in love however marriage occurred somewhat late. Incidentally, for a lot of this era, Helen too was married to 1 Prem Narayan Arora, whom she divorced in 1974.

   

So what was it about Salim that attracted her to him? In an interview to journalist Shashi Balinga, she had revealed how of the various business people, he was one who by no means tried to make the most of her. She was quoted in Pinkvilla as saying: “Something about Salim set him apart from rest of the industry men. I respected him tremendously as he tried to help me out without trying to exploit me.”

So was it actually romantic in any respect? Not fairly. Salim was quoted as saying: “I won’t be able to say when exactly I fell in love with her or decided to marry her. After seeing her for quite a long time we decided to honour our relationship. We got married in 1980.”

 

And was it simple to cool down with a married man? Helen did confess that she felt responsible seeing a married man and Salim accepted that his spouse and youngsters have been removed from accepting Helen. He additionally mentioned how the children carried their mom’s hostility into this relationship. “As kids they had their hostility. But they reacted the way their mother did. As I told you very honestly, it wasn’t as if Salma accepted the relationship happily straightaway and thanked me for it or said, you deserve an Oscar for it. So at that time there was hostility from the children.”

    

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It was solely pure that his kids, fairly grown up by 1980, wouldn’t taken kindly of Helen. Salman was in any case already 15 and aptly understood what was taking place. However, with time Salma and his kids, noticed that Helen was actually a heat particular person and, through the years, their emotions in direction of her modified. Today, she and, Salim and her adopted daughter Arpita, are very a lot part of the Khan household.

In truth, Arpita is kind of the darling of her brother, Salman and infrequently the centre of the Khan family. Salim’s life together with his two wives, kids and his many grandchildren is considered one of bliss. But would he advocate two marriages to anybody? Not actually. He was quoted in the identical report as saying: “Falling in love twice was a beautiful accident that happened to me. I have survived that accident! Though I wouldn’t recommend it as an ideal way of living. Normally it doesn’t work.”

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