{"id":533018,"date":"2026-03-11T09:58:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T09:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/533018\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T09:58:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T09:58:08","slug":"11-indian-cricketers-who-had-inter-faith-marriages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/533018\/","title":{"rendered":"11 Indian cricketers who had inter-faith marriages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former cricketer Manoj Prabhakar was known for his gritty, &#8220;never-say-die&#8221; attitude on the pitch, but his most enduring partnership happened away from the stadium lights. His marriage to former Bollywood star Farheen is a poignant example of love bridging different worlds.<\/p>\n<p>Farheen, who captured hearts in the 90s with the hit Jaan Tere Naam, famously walked away from the silver screen at the peak of her career to build a home with Manoj. Their inter-faith marriage\u2014blending Manoj\u2019s Hindu roots with Farheen\u2019s Muslim heritage\u2014proved that when two people truly connect, societal labels lose their volume. Decades later, they remain a steady team, showing that real-life chemistry beats any movie script.<\/p>\n<p>TOI Photo<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former cricketer Manoj Prabhakar was known for his gritty, &#8220;never-say-die&#8221; attitude on the pitch, but his most enduring&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":533019,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[264599,64,63,740,264594,264597,92649,264598,264595,264596,98175,88445,85,221724],"class_list":["post-533018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-anjum-khan","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cricket","tag-cricket-and-religion","tag-famous-cricket-couples","tag-indian-cricketers","tag-indian-cricketers-who-had-inter-faith-marriages","tag-interfaith-couples-in-cricket","tag-love-over-religion","tag-sharmila-tagore","tag-shivam-dube","tag-sports","tag-t20-world-cup-2026"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533018","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=533018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533018\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/533019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=533018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=533018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=533018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}