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Amrita Singh and Saif Ali KhanA love story ahead of its time<\/p>\nOn Amrita Singh\u2019s 68th birthday, daughter Sara Ali Khan showered love on her mother through a heartfelt social media post. The post also reminded many of Amrita\u2019s remarkable personal journey, one that included her unconventional marriage to Saif Ali Khan and the religious challenges that came with it.<\/p>\n
Amrita Singh and Saif Ali KhanA love story ahead of its time<\/p>\n
Even after years of parting ways, Amrita and Saif\u2019s love story remains one of Bollywood\u2019s most talked-about relationships. Their 12-year age gap raised eyebrows, with Amrita being older, but it was their different religious backgrounds that drew even more attention.<\/p>\n
Amrita was born to a Muslim socialite mother, Rukhsana Sultana, and a Sikh army officer father, Shivinder Singh Virk. Saif, meanwhile, came from the royal Pataudi family \u2014 his mother, veteran actor Sharmila Tagore, had converted to Islam after marrying cricketer Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi.<\/p>\n
Saif met Amrita during a film project, and sparks flew instantly. He once recalled on Rendezvous with Simi Garewal, \u201cBy the end of the evening, we kissed each other. I never left her house after that dinner. I used to sleep in another room.\u201d His mother, Sharmila, however, advised him against rushing into marriage. \u201cMy mother knew about our relationship, but she always told me, \u2018I hope you\u2019re happy in your relationship, but don\u2019t get married.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
Despite that, the couple tied the knot after a few months of dating.<\/p>\n
Parenting, faith, and separation<\/p>\n
In an old interaction quoted by the Indian Express, Saif also shared that he would babysit their children, Sara and Ibrahim, while Amrita visited Gurudwaras. \u201cSo when Dingy (Amrita) used to go for her regular prayer visits to the Gurudwara (temple of the Sikh community), I used to babysit and even later on found time to look after them on all such occasions,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
However, after their separation in 2004, Saif admitted to feeling worried about whether his children would remain connected to their Islamic roots. He said, “But when we separated, I was more worried about Sara and Ibrahim, who were then in Dingy\u2019s custody. But of course, I had trusted her enough and was very sure Dingy will never try to influence them in any which way and certainly not as far as our religion is concerned.\u201d<\/p>\n
When asked if religion ever became an issue in his later marriage with Kareena Kapoor, Saif said, \u201cIt never made any difference then and it\u2019s not at all going to make any difference now as far as my firm religious beliefs are concerned. Period!\u201d<\/p>\n
Sara\u2019s take on identity<\/p>\n
Years later, their daughter Sara Ali Khan opened up about her confusion growing up in a multi-faith household. At the Times Now Summit 2025, she said, \u201cI was very young, in school\u2026 I used to always wonder, Amrita Singh, Saif Pataudi, Sara Sultana, Ibrahim Ali Khan \u2014 what is going on? Who are we? And I remember asking my mom, what am I? And she told me, you are Indian. And I will never forget that.\u201d<\/p>\n
Today, Sara is often seen visiting temples and shrines like Kedarnath, embracing her mother\u2019s spiritual side while honouring her family\u2019s diverse roots.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On Amrita Singh\u2019s 68th birthday, daughter Sara Ali Khan showered love on her mother through a heartfelt social…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":468990,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[239609,239606,239608,239607,64,63,447,134,8222,239605],"class_list":{"0":"post-468989","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-amrita-singh-and-saif-ali-khans-love-story","9":"tag-amrita-singh-saif-ali-khan","10":"tag-amrita-singh-saif-ali-khan-kids","11":"tag-amrita-singh-saif-ali-khan-weddin","12":"tag-au","13":"tag-australia","14":"tag-celebrities","15":"tag-entertainment","16":"tag-saif-ali-khan","17":"tag-saif-ali-khan-amrita-singh"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=468989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468989\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/468990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=468989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=468989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=468989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}