Sonakshi Sinha’s father and superstar Shatrughan Sinha was once said to be dating his co-star Reena Roy.
Sonakshi Sinha tied the knot with her longtime boyfriend Zaheer Iqbal on June 23 in a civil marriage ceremony held in her Bandra home in Mumbai. When the actress had made her debut opposite Salman Khan in the 2010 action drama Dabangg, people had compared her looks with Reena Roy. Incidentally, the Nagin actress was said to be romantically involved with Sonakshi’s father and veteran actor Shatrughan Sinha at one point of time.
In an interview in January 2023, Reena Roy broke her silence on her uncanny resemblance with Sonakshi Sinha. Speaking to Firstpost, the veteran actress said, “Wahi na, yeh zindagi ke ittefaq hote hain (these are the coincidence in life). Jeetuji’s (Jeetendra) mother and my mother look like twins sisters.” When Sonakshi was asked the same question in one of her earlier interviews, she didn’t agree that she resembles Reena Roy, adding that she looks like her mother Poonam Sinha and nobody else.
In the 1980s, Shatrughan Sinha and Reena Roy shared screen space opposite each other in several successful films. There were rumours that the two are dating each other, even after Sinha’s marriage with Poonam in 1980. The actor’s close friend and filmmaker Pahlaj Nihalani confirmed these rumours when he wrote in Shatrughan’s memoirs, “After Hathkadi, I was keen to repeat the same setup of Shatrughan, Reena, Sanjeev Kumar for my next film, Aandhi Toofan. But Reena said a firm ‘no’ to my offer. She said to me, ‘Tell your friend to make up his mind. If he gives me an answer, I’ll do the next film with him. Otherwise, it’s a no. I’ve made up my mind that if he doesn’t marry me, I’m going to get married in eight days’.”
“He called her up and cried like a baby. For the first time, I saw him cry; he was very emotionally involved with her. That was the one time I spoke up and told him, ‘Let go, let her get married’,” former CBFC (Central Board of Film Certification) cheif further added. Reena married Pakistani cricketer Mohsin Khan in 1983, though they got divorced in the early 1990s. The actress had taken a sabbatical from work after her marriage as she had shifted to Pakistan. She returned to India in 1992 after her divorce and made a comeback to Bollywood, but couldn’t repeat the success of her early days. Roy was last seen on The Kapil Sharma Show along with Moushumi Chatterjee in an episode telecast in July 2023.
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