The day started with the shocking news of Govinda and Sunita Ahuja reportedly getting a divorce. Some reports claim that the couple has been living separately for a long time and are soon going to finalise their divorce. It is not known yet what triggered the decision and the rumours, as the couple is yet to confirm the same. The duo has been married for at least 37 years.
During the peak of his career, Govinda worked with many top actresses including Karisma Kapoor, Raveena Tandon, Aishwarya Rai, Rani Mukerji, and others. However, one actress with whom he did several movies is Neelam Kothari. Back then, there were also rumours that the two were having an affair. In the past, the actor once talked about being in love with Neelam and how he wanted to marry her.
Govinda once told Stardust, “She was the kind of woman any man would have lost his heart to. I lost mine. I asked Sunita to leave me. I broke off my engagement with her. And had Sunita not called me after five days and coaxed me into it again, I would probably have married Neelam. I wanted to marry her. And I don’t think there’s anything wrong with that. She wanted an intelligent, well-to-do, good-looking man as a husband. And I was anything but that. She belonged to the upper strata, and I was a dehati, coming from a lower-middle-class family. We were poles apart in every way. We probably would never have been successful as a married couple. And maybe Neelam realised that.”
Later too Neelam Kothari was asked about the affair rumours with Govinda. The actress said, “That was not… I think link-ups were part of the whole game. There was no one to clarify.” In the same interview, Neelam stated how they all were scared of media back in the day.
Neelam told Hauterfly, “They just printed whatever they felt like and, to be honest, I feel like in those days we were scared of the press. Because it was the power of the pen, and it was just part of it. If you did more than 2–3 films, it was just understood that… (you two must be together).”
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