{"id":4261,"date":"2025-08-11T04:35:58","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T04:35:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tezgyan.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/11\/this-heroine-defied-religious-barriers-for-love\/"},"modified":"2025-08-11T04:35:58","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T04:35:58","slug":"this-heroine-defied-religious-barriers-for-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tezgyan.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/11\/this-heroine-defied-religious-barriers-for-love\/","title":{"rendered":"This Heroine Defied Religious Barriers For Love"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div id=\"gallery-photo-1\" class=\"jsx-6a1e32423ad68b39 phtwrp\">\n<figure class=\"jsx-6a1e32423ad68b39\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.news18.com\/ibnlive\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Bollywood-Love-Stories-Celebrity-Couples-2025-08-83e6fe41fd58a07db449d47c109daa0c.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" class=\"jsx-6a1e32423ad68b39\"\/><\/figure>\n<p> Love knows no boundaries\u2014be it caste, religion, race or language. Countless couples have defied these divides to come together in marriage. This is especially evident in the film industry, where many have bridged religious differences. Likewise, the worlds of Hindi cinema and Indian cricket have witnessed unions that transcend such barriers.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:0\"\/><\/div>\n<div id=\"gallery-photo-2\" class=\"jsx-6a1e32423ad68b39 phtwrp\">\n<figure class=\"jsx-6a1e32423ad68b39\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.news18.com\/ibnlive\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Sharmila-Tagore-Pataudi-Anushka-Sharma-Bollywood-Actress-Married-Indian-Cricketers-2025-08-df5eeef22caf07d244d28b40f51c29f2.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" class=\"jsx-6a1e32423ad68b39 lazyload\"\/><\/figure>\n<p> A notable example is the legendary actress Sharmila Tagore and her husband, cricketer Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi. Likewise, the marriage of actress Anushka Sharma and cricketer Virat Kohli is another such union.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:0\"\/><\/div>\n<div id=\"gallery-photo-3\" class=\"jsx-6a1e32423ad68b39 phtwrp\">\n<figure class=\"jsx-6a1e32423ad68b39\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.news18.com\/ibnlive\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1754882253_1754724549_zaheer-khan-2-2025-08-de5d57646307e8b6587d19ca614b79d6.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" class=\"jsx-6a1e32423ad68b39 lazyload\"\/><\/figure>\n<p> But there is another Bollywood actress who married a cricketer, crossing all religious boundaries. It is actress Sagarika Ghatge, who made her Bollywood debut in 2007 with <em>Chak De India<\/em>, gaining attention for her role alongside Shah Rukh Khan.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:0\"\/><\/div>\n<div id=\"gallery-photo-4\" class=\"jsx-6a1e32423ad68b39 phtwrp\">\n<figure class=\"jsx-6a1e32423ad68b39\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.news18.com\/ibnlive\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1754882259_1754724555_zaheer-khan-5-2025-08-2258563a6d78a4e971c41b1424296f5a.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" class=\"jsx-6a1e32423ad68b39 lazyload\"\/><\/figure>\n<p> She later appeared in films such as <em>Fox<\/em> (2009) and <em>Rush<\/em> (2012). In 2017, she married Indian cricketer Zaheer Khan, despite their differing religions.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:0\"\/><\/div>\n<div id=\"gallery-photo-5\" class=\"jsx-6a1e32423ad68b39 phtwrp\">\n<figure class=\"jsx-6a1e32423ad68b39\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.news18.com\/ibnlive\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1754882257_1754724554_zaheer-khan-3-2025-08-de5d57646307e8b6587d19ca614b79d6.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" class=\"jsx-6a1e32423ad68b39 lazyload\"\/><\/figure>\n<p> Their love story is quite remarkable. Sagarika Ghatge once said, \u201cPeople around us talked a lot about religion, but we were determined, especially since my parents are progressive.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:0\"\/><\/div>\n<div id=\"gallery-photo-6\" class=\"jsx-6a1e32423ad68b39 phtwrp\">\n<figure class=\"jsx-6a1e32423ad68b39\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.news18.com\/ibnlive\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1754882258_1754724554_zaheer-khan-4-2025-08-491ffa5262f0184fe82c871f61daa771.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" class=\"jsx-6a1e32423ad68b39 lazyload\"\/><\/figure>\n<p> She also shared that Zaheer Khan expressed his love for her during IPL matches. \u201cWhen Zaheer first met my father, they got on well. My mother liked Zaheer even more than I did,\u201d she revealed.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:0\"\/><\/div>\n<div id=\"gallery-photo-7\" class=\"jsx-6a1e32423ad68b39 phtwrp\">\n<figure class=\"jsx-6a1e32423ad68b39\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.news18.com\/ibnlive\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1754882254_1754724552_zaheer-khan-6-2025-08-834b55bbe1f81a32e8265337de823b90.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" class=\"jsx-6a1e32423ad68b39 lazyload\"\/><\/figure>\n<p> Zaheer Khan was India\u2019s star in the 2011 ODI World Cup, finishing as the leading wicket-taker of the tournament. Over his career, Zaheer Khan played 92 Test matches, 200 ODIs and 17 T20 Internationals.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:0\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.news18.com\/photogallery\/movies\/bollywood\/when-bollywood-wed-cricket-this-heroine-defied-religious-barriers-for-love-ws-adkl-9497334.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Love knows no boundaries\u2014be it caste, religion, race or language. Countless couples have defied these divides to come together in marriage. This is especially evident in the film industry, where many have bridged religious differences. Likewise, the worlds of Hindi cinema and Indian cricket have witnessed unions that transcend such barriers. A notable example is&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4262,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tezgyan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tezgyan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tezgyan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tezgyan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tezgyan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tezgyan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4261\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tezgyan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tezgyan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tezgyan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tezgyan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}