Bollywood actor Neelam Kothari has broken her silence on the long-standing rumours about her alleged romance with Govinda during the 1980s and early 1990s. During a recent interaction, Neelam admitted that she was unaware that Govinda was married when they worked together in films.
“Something that may or may not have happened 20 years ago – I don’t know about it. She was the kind of woman any man would have lost his heart to. I lost mine.
Because i was very young, i was always accompanied by a family member. Because the industry was a bad place, it wasn’t. Because he wanted to marry Neelam, during a 1990 interview with Stardust, Govinda had openly spoken about his feelings for Neelam and revealed that he had even broken off his engagement with Sunita Ahuja, his now-wife,.
During an interview with Times Now, Neelam shared that she was too young when she starred opposite Govinda and that her strict parents would never have allowed her to pursue a relationship. I didn’t know that he was married. I learnt about it later. I was too young, and I had very strict parents. So a relationship was never an option. Not just Neelam, her husband and actor Samir Soni also reacted to the rumours and admitted that he remained unbothered by them. So how can I hold on to it? He still claims he was madly in love with you,” Samir shared. Govinda admitted that his infatuation with Neelam had become difficult to conceal. I couldn’t stop praising her. To my friends, to my family. Even to Sunita, to whom I was committed. The actor acknowledged that he compared the two women and even broke off his engagement with Sunita. “I would tell Sunita to change herself and become like Neelam. I would tell her to learn from her. I was merciless. I asked Sunita to leave me. I broke off my engagement with her. Had Sunita not called me after five days and coaxed me into it again, I would probably have married Neelam. I wanted to marry her. And I don’t think there’s anything wrong with that.”
She said, “I was too young. He had said, “We met so often and the more I got to know Neelam, the more I liked her.
