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Suchitra Krishnamoorthi is tremendous busy with the promotion marketing campaign of her comeback music Shararat which was launched on World Music Day, June 21. Suchitra has just lately opened up about her equation with ex-husband, filmmaker Shekhar Kapur, and the way it impacted her profession. Suchitra stated that Shekhar Kapur was “very clear that he doesn’t want his wife to act.” In an interview with Siddharth Kannan, she stated, “My [then] husband  [Shekhar Kapur] was very clear that he doesn’t want his wife to act. I said, ‘Okay, no big deal.’ I was too naive, too young to understand what he was trying to do.”  Suchitra added, “I always had more talent than ambition so I didn’t think anything would stop in my life. Though it did.”  

Suchitra Krishnamoorthi made her Bollywood debut reverse Shah Rukh Khan within the 1994 movie Kabhi Haan Kabhi Naa. The movie, directed by Kundan Shah, additionally starred Deepak Tijori.  

“It’s a very patriarchal mindset but there has been too much water under the bridge now. I quit after my debut movie which was a super-duper hit. That was the reason that I quit. I continued with my music because that wasn’t such an issue or so threatening but with acting it was very clear,” Suchitra stated. 

Suchitra Krishnamoorthi and Shekhar Kapur received married in 1999. They parted methods in 2007. They are mother and father to a daughter, Kaveri. 

Suchitra Krishnamoorthi, within the interview, additionally admitted that she was “obsessed” with Shekhar Kapur. Recalling the time when she met the director, Suchitra stated, “I feel that my marriage to Shekhar Kapur was past life karma that I had to fulfil. Because when I met him I got obsessed.” She added that as a 10-12-year-old she wished to marry both “former Pakistan Prime Minister and legendary cricketer, Imran Khan or Shekhar Kapur.”

She continued, “I went to meet him [Shekhar Kapur] when he was casting for Champion. Well, the film did not see the light of day. Then I kept meeting him. And, he would call me for drives. One thing led to another. And, I fell in love. But he was clear that boss I am not serious. But I was so conservative in my head, I told him, “I am not that type of girl. I will not see you again if you don’t marry me. That’s all I wanted. I wanted to get married and have babies.”

Suchitra Krishnamoorthi, who comes from a “conservative South Indian family”, added that her mother and father weren’t pleased in regards to the relationship. “My parents were against this marriage as Shekhar was of my mother’s age at that time. He was also divorced, and from the film industry. My mother begged me not to go forward with this relationship. They asked me to have an affair and get it out of my head. But I was sure that this is what I want and it is something that I brought on myself.”

Talking in regards to the variations of their “painful relationship”, Suchitra Krishnamoorthi stated, “Actually, when I got pregnant, I was leaving the marriage. I was moving to the Berklee College of Music. But I discovered I was pregnant. So fate has its own way of unravelling itself and unravelling your life story.”

Suchitra Krishnamoorthi also revealed that Shekhar Kapur cheated on her. Sharing her opinion on infidelity, she said, “I don’t think marriages break because of infidelity, they break up because of disrespect.”

Suchitra Krishnamoorthi also spoke about the societal pressure and how people wanted her to have another child and save the marriage. “A lot of women do that. When marriage is in peril, they have a baby. So I said no, what’s the big deal? I would rather be on my own and live my own story with dignity than carry on in something that’s not serving me, just for status and image and money,” she stated.