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New Delhi:

The newest episode of Karan Johar’s chat present Koffee With Karan 8 was one for the books as movie veteran Sharmila Tagore attended the present together with her son and actor Saif Ali Khan. The conversations veered in direction of household dynamics, cinema and extra. During the present, host Karan Johar mentioned this about Saif Ali Khan and his ex-wife Amrita Singh, “There is one place that he reached and never left. It was Amrita Singh’s house. He reached there was the first time and you never left.” Karan Johar then added, “And Soha (Saif’s sister) tells me that eventually when it culminated into marriage, she was 13 and a classmate told her, your brother just got married.”

Saif Ali Khan spoke in regards to the marriage and mentioned, “I remember telling my mother.” Sharmila Tagore intervened and mentioned, “Actually I was visiting Mumbai for something and Saif came to me, to meet me. And he said I have something to tell you and he told me. And then of course, I don’t know what I was doing but I was quiet and he says Amma you’re quiet and your colour is changing and you are looking different. And I told him we will talk about it later. And then he left then I rang up Tiger and told him and there was a long silence on his part and then we left it at that. Then I said, I would like to meet her. The next day I called Amrita and we had tea and we chatted, but still quite shocked.”

“How does one suddenly get married at that age,” Karan Johar requested Saif. To which, the actor replied, “It was kind of like running away from home in a sense. I don’t remember so many things going on and I found a kind of security and an idea that it feels great. I thought I could make a home out of that.” Sharmila Tagore added that each Saif and Amrita Singh have been very related in a whole lot of methods. “Both of them were very similar. Both of them were very funny. Whenever they would talk, it would be a lot of laughter, mimicking other people, tearing somebody to bits in a funny way. He is good at mimicry and she is a great storyteller. They looked really happy together,” she added.

Saif added that his mother was supportive when she received to find out about his and Amrita’s marriage. “She (Sharmila Tagore) was supportive when I did it, and I remember it. She had said, I believe you are living with someone and you are doing something. So I said yes and she said that don’t get married. And I said that I got married yesterday. And a big tear fell off of her eye. She started crying and she said, you really hurt me, why didn’t you tell me. So that’s actually what happened there,” Saif Ali Khan mentioned.

The actor additionally added that Sharmila Tagore was the primary particular person he spoke to earlier than his and Amrita’s separation and mentioned, “About the separation, the first person I spoke to before the separation was my mother, who took a deep breath and there was another pause on the phone and said, I am with you if that is what you want and that helped a lot.”

Speaking about Saif’s and Amrita’s separation, Sharmila Tagore mentioned, “When you are together for such a long time and you have such lovely children, then no break up is easy. Then it is not a harmonious… I know it is difficult to have harmony at that stage, everybody is hurt… so that stage was not nice but I tried. But that’s water under the bridge, she needed time to cool down.”

Sharmila Tagore added that it was tough time for not only for Saif however for the household as properly. “It’s not just staying away, there are so many other things that are involved. It wasn’t a happy time for us because Ibrahim was just three and we were very fond of the children. Especially, Tiger was really fond of Ibrahim and he would say, That’s a good lad. He didn’t get that time with him. So we felt doubly deprived to lose Amrita and lose the two kids. So it’s just not him but we also had to adjust to all that.”

Saif Ali Khan and Amrita Singh received married in 1991 and after 13 years, the couple received divorced in 2004. Saif and Amrita are dad and mom to a son named Ibrahim Ali Khan and daughter Sara Ali Khan. Saif married actor Kareena Kapoor in 2012 and they’re dad and mom to sons Taimur and Jeh.