“Rajendra Kumar was a money minded person”

New Delhi:

Vijayta Pandit made her Bollywood debut in the 1981 film Love Story opposite Kumar Gaurav. During filming, the duo fell in love and started dating. In her latest interview, the erstwhile actress revealed that Kumar Gaurav’s father, the late actor Rajendra Kumar, was a “money minded man”. He wanted his son to marry a rich girl. As a result, the couple broke up and moved on with their lives. While Vijayta Pandit married music composer Aadesh Shrivastava, Kumar Gaurav married Sanjay Dutt’s sister Namrata.

“I don’t think she suffered. We were both in love and her family was against it. They wanted to take Bunty’s focus away from me. One of her sisters would study with Namrata Dutt. She used to bring Namrata home and they started push them to meet.They thought she was better than Vijayta.Finally Namrata and Bunty came close.They thought she was the daughter of Sunil Dutt so she was a better choice for to Kumar Gaurav,” Vijayta Pandit said in a chat with Indian Express.

He added, “His family thought he was not as rich as they were. Money was the main reason why they were against the relationship. They wanted him to marry a rich girl. Rajendra Kumar was a money-minded man. He wanted his son to marry a rich girl. He thought we weren’t up to being rich. But we were well off, not as rich as him.”

The actress further revealed that she put her career on hold because of her relationship with Kumar Gaurav. She said, “I wanted to work. I was getting offers for many films. But I was thinking of getting married. Bunty (Kumar Gaurav) was asking me why I wanted to work. He said, “Tum mere ghar ki aur meri heroine bano, you don’t have to work’. He said we were going to get married and he was going to work, so he didn’t have to. I knew his father was taking me out of movies.”

Vijayta Pandit shared that Kumar Gaurav was deeply in love with her. The actress recalled an incident when she danced with a school friend at her birthday party and Kumar Gaurav got so jealous that he hit a glass and injured his hand. She said, “Bunty was very faithful to me. He loved me immensely. No one would have ever thought that he would leave me. Once I had a birthday party in a hut near my house, and Bunty had also come. Only I was talking to a friend from school and I also danced with him. That time, Bunty hurt his hand by hitting a glass on the shack. My brothers got scared and he said, “I can’t see this, why was she dancing with him?” He was so possessive.”

Kumar Gaurav married Namrata Dutt in 1984. The couple share two daughters: Saachi Kumar and Siya Kumar. Vijayta Pandit’s marriage to Aadesh Shrivastava took place in the year 1990. They have two children: Avitesh Shrivastava and Anivesh Shrivastava. Aadesh died in 2015 due to cancer.