Sonakshi's inter-religion marriage with Zaheer Iqbal wasn’t liked by many
Bollywood’s veteran actor shatrughan sinha arrived on The Great indian Kapil Show with his wife Poonam Sinha, daughter sonakshi sinha and son-in-law Zaheer Iqbal. This episode was quite fun. During this, shatrughan sinha shared many unheard stories from his first meeting with wife Poonam Sinha. The veteran actor also told that his mother-in-law did not like him.
Perhaps during the episode, archana puran singh asked Poonam whether she or Shatrughan had proposed first. To this Shatrughan quipped, "He made me propose." Poonam further told in detail that her mother had initially rejected the pairing of her and Shatrughan. Poonam said, "His elder brother came to my house to talk to my mother. She said, 'No' absolutely not, we don't want any boy from the film fraternity.'"
Moreover Shatrughan added a touch of humour to the story by revealing, "He said to my brother, 'Have you seen your brother?' This Bihari, street goon, and our daughter is doodh ki dhooli hui, itni sundar, gori, and Miss India.'' He further joked, ''If you stand us together and take a colour photo, it looks black and white.'' On hearing this from Shatrughan, the audience and fellow panelists started laughing out loud. Despite initial opposition, the couple got married in 1980 and have been together since then. The presence of the Sinha family on the Netflix show also dispelled rumours of a rift due to Sonakshi's recent inter-religion marriage with Zaheer Iqbal.