Kareena Kapoor not following Sharmila's footsteps

Bollywood actor Saif Alli Khan and Kareena Kapoor's official wedding picture. (SUPPLIED)

Published Monday, December 10, 2012

By Staff

Bollywood actress Kareena Kapoor is doing everything a devout begam of a Nawab would do. But what she did not do is change her religion.

Kareena Kapoor has not converted to Islam after her grand nuptials with the Royal Nawab, Saif Ali Khan. The revelation of this news was made by yesteryear bollywood superstar and her mother-in-law Sharmila Tagore.

In a recent media interview, Sharmila said,”Kareena has not converted her religion to Islam. However, she is the wife of Pataudi and hence will also be known as ‘Kareena Begam’ as Saif has been entitled as the Nawab” . Following the death of his father in 2011, Saif Ali Khan was proclaimed the Nawab of Pataudi by the villagers of Pataudi State in deference to tradition, although the title carries no official or legal significance.

Interestingly, not many are ware that Sharmila Tagore converted to Islam from Hinduism after her marriage to Khan's father, and changed her name to Begum Ayesha Sultana.

The newly-married actor’s latest item number in Dabangg 2, Fevicol se, is topping the charts. As a result, she has been flooded with numerous offers to dance to the hit number at wedding functions across India. But the actor has been turning all of them down.

Kareena does not want to do anything that could even remotely harm the reputation of her family.

Her decision could have been influenced by her actor-husband, Saif Ali Khan who belongs to the royal family of Pataudi and Kareena probably took the decision keeping her in-laws’ status in mind.

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