‘Raj Babbar’s relationship with Smita Patil wasn’t an affair, it was pure love’: Aarya Babbar on ‘strained’ relationship with dad, adds ‘baap itna galat nahi tha’

Former actor Aarya Babbar, who has now started his career as a stand-up comic, recently gave a performance where he presented a comedy set about his family members. Aarya spoke about not being invited to brother Prateik Babbar’s wedding and how his father reacted when he did not get an invitation for the same. He also spoke about his mother Nadira Babbar, who is a Muslim, learning Punjabi bolis for her stepson’s marriage and sister Juhi Babbar making laddoos for the occasion.

In a video shared on his channel Babbar Saab, Aarya spoke about being questioned by reporters at a young age about his father’s relationship with Smita Patil. Raj was already married to Nadira when he fell in love with Smita. The two got married and welcomed Prateik, but Smita died in childbirth. After this, Raj got back together with Nadira. “When I was 6-7 years old, I used to enjoy playing hide and seek but I wasn’t playing hide and seek with my friends, I was playing it with the media. They would pop out of anywhere, throw a microphone in my face and ask me, ‘Your father is having an affair. how do you feel?'”

Aarya then seriously shared that this was an affair but a pure relationship. “But honestly, that wasn’t an affair. That was genuine pure love that Papa and Smita ma felt for each other. As a family, we understood and respected that relationship, and accepted it . But when you are 6-7 years old, you don’t understand all of this. And it was because of this, that my relationship with my father was strained. Because I couldn’t get it,” he said. He then added his joke, “Now that I am 43 and I have been married for 8-9 years, I understand, ‘Baap itna bhi galat nahi tha (My father wasn’t that wrong)’.”

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Aarya then spoke about his love for Prateik and said, “The silver lining of that relationship was that I got my little brother because of that.” He also added, “If there is anyone in my house that I love the most, it is my little brother.”

Prateik Babbar recently got married to Priya Banerjee. Nobody from the Babbar family was invited for the wedding.