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Aamir Khan was yet to make his debut in the movies when he met his first wife Reena Dutta and fell in love with her. Aamir was head over heels in love when he was trying to woo her and in trying to impress her, he did something quite dangerous. In an earlier interview, Aamir confessed that he wrote a love letter in blood to Reena. She was quite upset with him and in hindsight, even Aamir could see why Reena reacted this way.
In a 1999 interview with Simi Grewal, Aamir was asked about writing letters in blood and to this, he said, “Well once [I wrote a letter in blood], after which I was appropriately put in my place by her. She didn’t like it at all. She was quite upset with me.” When asked what made Aamir do that, he shared that it was his immature way of interpreting love. “You know I was young and I thought that… I thought it’s a way to express the deep love that I have for her but today I feel that… I mean I hear of lot of kids doing that and I receive a lot of letters in blood and I think that it’s not a nice thing to do. You don’t need to do that to express your love for a person so I wouldn’t advice youngsters to do that,” he said.
In the same chat, Aamir recalled that he and Reena eloped when he was 21 and she was 19. He said that their parents didn’t know about their love, and Reena’s parents were “quite upset that she was seeing somebody.” Aamir and Reena were both scared of losing each other and found themselves making the “tough decision” of eloping as they knew that this would “hurt” their parents. “It wasn’t out of disrespect or rebellion, it was more out of insecurity,” he said. Aamir said that he wasn’t even 21 when they decided to get married so they had to wait a couple of months before they could legally marry each other.
In another interview, Aamir had said that his wedding to Reena cost him only Rs 10. He shared with Rediff, “I got married to Reena secretly through court marriage, with three witnesses. My wedding with Reena was most economical. I took Bus 211 and bought a ticket of 50 paise. I got down at Bandra station West, crossed the bridge, landed in the east and walked towards the highway. I crossed that highway and entered Griha Nirman Bhavan, where there is a marriage registrar office. So my wedding cost me less than Rs 10.”
Aamir and Reena stayed married for 16 years and divorced in 2002. They are parents to Junaid and Ira.
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