{"id":400,"date":"2008-08-22T11:50:37","date_gmt":"2008-08-22T11:50:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shekharkapur.com\/newblog\/?p=400"},"modified":"2008-08-22T11:50:37","modified_gmt":"2008-08-22T11:50:37","slug":"mumbai-mirrors-completely-irresponsible-article-on-mine-and-suchitras-divorce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shekharkapur.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/mumbai-mirrors-completely-irresponsible-article-on-mine-and-suchitras-divorce\/","title":{"rendered":"Mumbai Mirror’s completely irresponsible article on mine and Suchitra’s divorce"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have never spoken about my divorce publicly before. It is a painful process not only for the two people involved but also for the young children. Both Suchitra and I spent nine very painful and turmoil driven years in a marriage, and though I was not in favour of a divorce because of our daughter Kaveri who was only 7 at that time, Suchitra was the one that had the courage and the resolve to confront me with legal summons while I was in London shooting Golden Age.
\nIn any case we went through a very amicable divorce. I did not hire a lawyer and agreed to all the financial and other terms laid down by Suchitra and her lawyer. I did ask to share custody for kaveri, our daughter, but both Suchitra and her lawyer said that was not possible. The financial settlement included amongst other things, money to buy a house for Suchitra and Kaveri of equal value (as determined by Suchitra) of my sister’s house in mumbai where Kaveri and Suchitra lived in at that time.
\nImagine my shock to read in the Mumbai Mirror this morning that made an accusation against me and my family of asking Suchitra and my daughter to move out of the house after one year of the settlement being made, making no mention of the divorce settlement. Nor of the fact that Suchitra was the one insisted on living separately from me.
\nI would like nothing better than to have my daughter live with me under my roof. But under the divorce terms Suchitra will not allow that. I have never asked Suchitra to conform a date by which she should move to her own house, though my sister, understandably, has.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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