After Sunaina Roshan’s partner Ruhail Amin came out in support of her claims that Hrithik Roshan and the rest of her family isn’t accepting of him since he is Muslim, he has now also sought to clear the air around rumours that he is currently married to another woman.
“Fictional pieces floating around my personal life are dumbed down versions of gossip journalism,” he tweeted in response to an article by Bollywood Hungama that quoted a source as saying that Rakesh and Pinky Roshan disapproved of Sunaina and Ruhail’s relationship because the latter is presently married with children. He also invited the aforementioned source to “come out in the open and substantiate this gibberish.”
On 20 June, Sunaina alleged in an interview that her father Rakesh Roshan slapped her and branded her partner a terrorist because he was Muslim. “Last year, I fell in love with a journalist, Ruhail Amin, but neither my father nor Hrithik approved of the relationship. My father slapped me and said he was a terrorist,” she told Pinkvilla.
In an interview with News 18, Ruhail called the Roshans’ alleged behaviour “unfortunate”. “Labelling someone extremist just because he/she belongs to a certain religion is simply outrageous and needs to be condemned in strongest words,” he said. “This incident has once again exposed the dark underbelly of identity politics at play in today’s liberal times which are totally uncalled for,” he added.
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