Bhagyashree patwardhan who was born in a royal Marathi family with a conservative parents. Her career, family and love life all faced a lot of twists and turns.
This elegant and dexterous diva was never into acting and had went to USA to pursue MBA,but her destiny took her to where she belonged the most and she got an offer from Sheela, the former wife of actor/film-maker, Amol Palekar, approached her to act in a television serial ‘Kaachi Dhoop’, which she accepted. The TV serial became very famous,later she also appeared in other serials.
After that she got an offer to work in the lead role in Sooraj Barjatya’s ‘Maine Pyar Kiya’, opposite Salman Khan and the first movie turned out to be a blockbuster. After that she kept on working and worked in a total of 13 movies. However, Bhagyashree left the industry very soon and stayed far away from the limelight.
Coming back to Bhagyashree’s love life so the veteran actress shared her story in an interview where she told that she and his love both of them studied in the same school and in the same class and then she recited the whole story in her own words which went like.
“We went to school together — he was the naughtiest kid in class and I was always the class monitor. We would fight all the time and the rest of the class would have a blast! We were like Yin and Yang — the more we fought, the more it became clear that we couldn’t be apart. We never dated though…he never even told me how he felt until the last day of school. He said, ‘I have to tell you something’ and then for one week he kept trying to say it but would always back out. Finally, I went up to him and said, ‘look, just say it…I’m sure the answer will be positive’ and that’s when he told me he liked me.”
Further her parents never wanted this duo to be together, she said “come from a very conservative family, so even after that while we were in college, we would barely meet or talk on the phone. When I told my parents about him, they thought we were too young to decide something like this, and I believed as well that if he really loved me, we should be apart for some time — he should explore, know that I’m the one and then we could be together. So we broke up when he went away to the US to study, and that’s when I signed Maine Pyar Kiya.”
Meanwhile Bhagyashree and Himalaya none of them were in a relationship but bhagyashree always had a feeling that someday they both will be together forever
So in the same interview she explained further “Before signing the film, while he was still in the States I went and met his parents to ask them if they were okay with me getting into films…we weren’t even together at that point, but I guess somewhere I knew that we would in the future. They said that they had no problems…and I began shooting. When he came back home during the course of the shooting, we both knew that we wanted to be together, but my parents still wouldn’t allow us to meet or speak on the phone…so I decided to speak to them. I told them that seeing him made me happy, that I couldn’t be without him, but they were still adamantly against our relationship. I knew then that there wasn’t any other way.”
Bhagyashree was very much frustrated by his parents decisions as they had even restricted her to talk to Himalaya,so she thought that the only option left with them is to runaway from her home and get married,i her own words she said ” I called him up after this conversation and asked him, ‘are you sure of yourself, of us? This is the deciding day…either I’d be in his life forever or not at all.’ I said, ‘I’m leaving my house now, if you love me come and pick me up’ and within 15 minutes he was under my house. We had a small ceremony at a temple — his parents, Salman, Sooraj ji, a few of our friends attended and that’s how we got married.”
As soon as Bhagyashree got married in the year 1990 she left the Bollywood industry for lifetime,she shared her own thoughts about it by saying “Thereafter, Maine Pyar Kiya went on to become such a big hit, but I was a woman so in love with my husband and my son Abhimanyu who was born soon after that I said no to every offer I got. I have absolutely no regrets though, I look at my life, my family now and I feel so proud. Yash Ji always said, ‘you’re a foolish girl’ and oh yes, I loved being foolish! “
So, here’s how Bhagyashree patwardhan married the love of her life and is living happily ever after.