Despite being one of the biggest actors of the 1990s, Juhi Chawla has largely kept her personal life away from the limelight. the actor has rarely spoken about her relationship or married life While fans have always been curious about her marriage to billionaire industrialist and Mehta Group chairman Jay Mehta . However, on a few occasions, Juhi has opened up about her wedding and shared some interesting anecdotes about her life with Jay.
When Juhi Chawla doubted her marriage would end her career
As per reports, Juhi and Jay were introduced by filmmaker Rakesh Roshan, and they eventually fell in love and tied the knot. However, having lost her mother a year earlier, the actor admitted that she was going through emotional turmoil and wanted to cancel the big-fat wedding. During the interaction, Juhi also admitted that she was worried that getting married would mark the end of her career. Amid all these emotions, the idea of a big wedding became overwhelming for her. My mother had just passed a year ago. When the marriage date was coming close, I was thinking my mother is gone, whom I loved the most, and now my career will also go away. I didn’t know how to be happy about it. Can you imagine your mother-in-law doing it for you? She convinced the family to not have the big wedding, and I got married, but it was at home with just the family and closest friends. Imagine your mother-in-law cancelling those invitations which had gone out all over the world.”
In 2024, at an event hosted by the Gujarat Chamber of Commerce & Industry, Juhi had opened up about her wedding and revealed that she was initially supposed to have a grand ceremony with around 2,000 guests. Invitations had gone out to maybe 2000 people. So with just 80-90-100 people, the wedding was done.
She said, “I was shooting for some of the really big films of my career, and I was supposed to get married. So, I broke down one day, and I told my mother-in-law. Sharing the same, she said, “My mother-in-law said, ‘It’s okay. She said, ‘Abhi nahi horahi hai (It’s not happening now)’.
