Zarina Wahab owns four houses, she could've divorced Aditya Pancholi if she wanted: Sooraj Pancholi on dad's infidelities

Indian Express

4 days ago

Actor Sooraj Pancholi admitted that an individual's personality takes shape when they're young, and that it depends almost entirely on their upbringing. Sooraj is the son of actors Zarina Wahab and Aditya Pancholi, but he was raised by his grandparents. In an interview, he spoke about his parents' tumultuous marriage, and said that his mother could've left his father had she wanted, as she's financially independent and owns four houses. But, he said, they have an 'arrangement' that he doesn't want to judge.
Appearing on the Hindi Rush podcast, he was asked about his parents, and he said, 'I would love to be a father like my father, and I would love to be a partner like my mother…' He explained, 'She holds the whole family together, and she has really been through a lot because of us. I have never, ever seen her break down. She has never complained about anything.' Asked if it's a good thing to be an uncomplaining woman, Sooraj said, 'She's making her own money, she has never taken even one rupee from my father.'
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He continued, 'She's been acting since the age of 16; she's almost 65 now. She is self-made. She has four homes of her own. She doesn't come from money. If she wanted to leave, she could have done it long back. Sometimes, women don't leave because they don't have backup… She had a route to go to Hyderabad; she has a home in Bandra also. She has her mother's home in Bandra. She has four sisters, one of them is in America. She has four brothers. She could have left any time, but it's her decision to stay. I can't judge their arrangement.'
He said that one of his father's best qualities is that he never stopped Zarina from working, and never interfered in her professional life. He did, however, engage in a public affair with Kangana Ranaut, whom he groomed from a young age. In an interview with Nayandeep Rakshit recently, Zarina had said, 'I used to feel a little bad when I used to read affair rumours, but then I also laughed at them. I don't care what he does outside, but when he enters the house, he is an excellent father and husband. And that's all matters to me. I would have felt bad if only he brought his affairs home. A lot of men have affairs and still run a family. If I will start taking these things too seriously, and start fighting over it then I will suffer. I don't want to suffer, I love myself.'
In an interview with Lehren Retro, Zarina spoke about Kangana, who, according to her, dated her husband for four-and-half years after meeting in 2004, when Kangana was 18. She said, 'I was always nice to Kangana. She often visited my home. He was very nice to her. I don't know what went wrong. I just can tell that I saw what he couldn't and eventually that happened.'