Was Shilpa Shirodkar dating Sachin Tendulkar before he got married to Anjali? Here’s how the legendary cricketer and actress had reacted to their affair rumours | Hindi Movie News

Sachin Tendulkar has been married to Anjali for about three decades. They had tied the knot in 1995 and have two children – Sara and Arjun. However, did you know that before the legendary cricketer got married to Anjali, rumour mills said that he was having an affair with actress Shilpa Shirodkar. The actress known for movies like ‘Gopi Kishan’, ‘Aankhen’ and more was linked with Sachin after she met him once. In an old interview, Shilpa had also reacted to these rumours. She had said in an old interview with Red FM, “When I was doing Hum, I met Sachin for the first time, because Sachin jaha pe rehte the mere cousin brother waha par rehte the. Sachin and my cousin brother used to play cricket together in Bandra East. So, that’s how I met Sachin. And Sachin was already seeing Anjali at that time, which was not told to anybody. We all knew because we were friends. Because an actor is meeting a cricketer and he was Sachin Tendulkar, it became easy for people to say, aree and I met him once.“

‘Hum’ starred Shilpa along with Amitabh Bachchan, Rajinikanth, Govinda and others. Meanwhile, Sachin also had addressed it. In an interview with India Today, when the cricketer was asked about the most stupid thing he’s heard about himself, he had said, “That Shilpa Shirodkar and I were having an affair. Because we don’t even know each other at all.” Shilpa later got married to a UK-based banker Aparesh Ranjit in 2000 and left the movies. She has recently made her comeback with ‘Bigg Boss’ and will be seen in ‘Jatadhara’. The actress spoke about leaving Mumbai after her marriage, in a recent interview with Pinkvilla and said, “I never wanted to leave Mumbai as I was very close to my parents, but then I met my husband and within one and a half day, I said yes to him knowing that he is not going to be in India, he is going to go abroad to study. So the bottom line was that I would also be leaving India. I just liked his honesty so much that I didn’t even think what am I doing.”