Recently, their daughter Saba Pataudi has opened up about her upbringing and revealed that while her mother converted to Islam after marriage and introduced her children to the faith, she never imposed any particular belief system on them. Actor Sharmila Tagore had an interfaith marriage with former cricketer Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi and went on to have three children.
After a four-year courtship, the two tied the knot in December 1969. In a conversation with YouTube channel Big Bollywood Buff, Saba revealed that she practices Islam and revealed how, growing up, there was no practice of Hinduism at home, and her mother was the one who guided her and her siblings in Islam. When Amma and Abba got married, my mother, in fact, did convert to Islam and did guide us in Islam, perhaps so that we wouldn’t be confused and would have some sort of grounding.
That doesn’t mean that I don’t respect other religions. There was no temple or Hindu religion that we practised. Veteran actor Sharmila’s marriage to former Indian cricket captain and Nawab of Pataudi, Mansoor Ali Khan, was one of the most high-profile marriages of its time. Their relationship attracted considerable attention as Sharmila came from a Bengali Hindu family, while Mansoor belonged to a prominent Muslim royal family.
She said, “If I were to think of a God, I would probably say Allah.
