Mumtaz
Veteran actress Mumtaz has managed to grab attention with her charming roles in films. With a career spanning over two decades, she established herself as the top heroine and was part of successful films like Khilona, Do Raaste, and more.
Veteran actress Mumtaz has managed to grab attention with her charming roles in films. With a career spanning over two decades, she established herself as the top heroine and was part of successful films like Khilona, Do Raaste, and more.
The actress was focused on her career and she turned down several marriage proposals. She recalled that Yash Chopra, the legendary filmmaker and brother of BR Chopra had proposed to her for marriage. She rejected him as she wanted to focus on her career.
In a recent interview with Radio Nasha, Mumtaz walked down memory lane as she remembered the time when Yash Chopra worked as an assistant director under his brother BR Chopra.
Yash ji genuinely liked me very much. He was an assistant at that time. He liked me, and I'm not saying I was exceptionally beautiful, but I was reasonable. So, he liked me. I was young, and he was an assistant. He very decently and respectfully proposed marriage to me. He said, 'Moti Moti, I love you,' and I said, 'No, I want to focus on work, I wanted to get somewhere, she said.
Mumtaz even praised Yash Chopra’s personality and said that he was not a flirt types. “Bohut hi acche insaan the. Unke jaisa accha insaan aur director bohut kum hai. Unka beta Aditya bhi ab accha director hai. Par unone bohut izzat se mujhe shaadi offer ki thi, aisa nahi ki line maar rahe hai. Voh bohut shareef insaan the. Fir jab unhone shaadi ki, toh main unki shaadi mein bhi gayi. We were very, very good friends (He was a very good person. There are very few good people and directors like him,” she added.
She even praised Yash’s son Aditya Chopra and said that he is a good director. “His son Aditya is also a good director now. But he had very respectfully proposed marriage to me—it wasn’t like he was hitting on me. He was a very decent man. Later, when he got married, I even attended his wedding),” she said. Yash Chopra passed away on 21 October 2012 after getting diagnosed with dengue fever. He was admitted to Lilavati Hospital in Bandra, Mumbai and succumbed to death following multiple organ failure.