Actor Raveena Tandon addressed her public breakup with Akshay Kumar, and the rumours that followed about her having taken a drastic measure immediately afterwards. She also spoke about adopting two girls at around the same time, and being criticised for that as well. Raveena and Akshay will collaborate with each other for the first time in 20 years with the upcoming Welcome to the Jungle.
In an interview with Barkha Dutt for Mojo Story, she was asked if she laughs about all the ‘theories’ that did the rounds after her engagement with Akshay was called off. “Yes, what’s the big deal? So many relationships break up, people move on, you remain friends… You realise we were not good as partners but we’re good as friends. So what’s the big deal? I don’t understand. I was absolutely fine. The bigger fuss was made in the media, because in those days, they wanted to sell their magazines. But personally, amongst us, between my friends, and what my family thought mattered to me. Beyond a certain point, what people thought did not matter to me.”
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When it was brought up that the harsh coverage around her breakup, and her rumoured suicide attempt in its aftermath, led to her adopting two girls, Raveena said, “Yes, that’s right.” She continued, “There was absolutely no control on the kind of stories that would go around. So, the day I got my two girls home… They were not getting the life that they deserved, I felt, and this was something that was happening closer to home, and I decided to take charge. The day I turned 21 I brought them in. I couldn’t watch it unfold in front of me and not do anything. That is how I’ve always been, sticking my nose into places where it doesn’t belong.” Raveena said that her two adopted daughters were mainly brought up by her parents, and that they eventually helped bring up her two biological children with husband Anil Thadani.
About re-collaborating with Raveena after a two-decade gap, Akshay told news agency ANI last year, “We’ve done maximum hit films together and I am looking forward to starting the shoot (of Welcome to the Jungle) after a long long time and we will be together on the same screen.” The two actors have previously worked together on films such as Mohra, Main Khiladi Tu Anari, and Khiladiyon Ka Khiladi, among others.
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