{"id":294152,"date":"2025-04-30T12:43:25","date_gmt":"2025-04-30T12:43:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/30\/sharmila-tagore-and-i-were-never-friendly-mumtaz-admits-she-didnt-enquire-about-saif-ali-khans-well-being-after-attack-says-i-call-nobody\/"},"modified":"2025-04-30T12:43:26","modified_gmt":"2025-04-30T12:43:26","slug":"sharmila-tagore-and-i-were-never-friendly-mumtaz-admits-she-didnt-enquire-about-saif-ali-khans-well-being-after-attack-says-i-call-nobody","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/30\/sharmila-tagore-and-i-were-never-friendly-mumtaz-admits-she-didnt-enquire-about-saif-ali-khans-well-being-after-attack-says-i-call-nobody\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Sharmila Tagore and I were never friendly\u2019: Mumtaz admits she didn\u2019t enquire about Saif Ali Khan\u2019s well-being after attack, says, \u2018I call nobody\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Many know about the rivalry between veteran actors Mumtaz and Sharmila Tagore<\/a><\/strong> when they were at the top of their careers. In a recent interaction, Mumtaz<\/a><\/strong> recalled the competition between the two and also opened up about their contention to star alongside the late superstar Rajesh Khanna in films.<\/p>\n

In an interview with Vickey Lalwani, Mumtaz was quizzed about the truth behind her rivalry with Sharmila Tagore. She responded, saying, \u201cRivalry for what? I had nothing to do with Sharmila Tagore. She has among the top actors and so was I.\u201d However, Mumtaz did swiftly put across the point that she won more awards than Sharmila, saying, \u201cOn the contrary, I think I have won more awards than what she had ever won. I got more awards. She and I both were beautiful, so why would I be jealous of her? I was never jealous of her, I don\u2019t know why people think that.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Mumtaz also opened up about whether she reached out to Sharmila when her son, actor Saif Ali Khan<\/a>, suffered a brutal knife attack earlier this year. She said, \u201cNo, I didn\u2019t call her. I call nobody. So many people died, I didn\u2019t call anybody. Also, I live in London and travel to Kenya, Uganda, wherever my husband goes. I come to Mumbai<\/a> only once in 6 months because I was born and brought up here and I love India. I am what I am because of the love I got from Indians.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Mumtaz further shared that since she and Sharmila were never close, she didn\u2019t feel the need to inquire about Saif\u2019s well-being. \u201cI was never close to her. I was not friendly with her and neither was she. She had her own set of friends and I had mine,\u201d she said. For the unversed, Saif was brutally attacked by an intruder at his Mumbai house in January. The went through two surgeries after the knife attack.<\/p>\n

When asked about their common link \u2014 Rajesh Khanna<\/a> \u2014 and the number of hit films delivered with him, Mumtaz replied, \u201cMine and Rajesh Khanna\u2019s stars matched, that\u2019s why we starred in so many films together.\u201d When it was pointed out that Sharmila also delivered hit films with him, Mumtaz responded, \u201cHow many films did she do with him and how many I did? Please count. She hardly did films with Rajesh Khanna. I did at least 10-15 films with him and all hits, none of them were flops. All our songs were hit. Me and Rajesh Khanna became friends. He wasn\u2019t friendly with every heroine, but he would get on with Sharmila ji also.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Talking more about her equation with Rajesh Khanna, she said, \u201cMe and Rajesh ji developed a chemistry and we would practice songs before the shoot. We were very close because we worked a lot together. I think I was the closest to Kaka. I was also close to Dharmendra<\/a>. He is a good human. I used to get on with all my hero.\u201d<\/p>\n

However, Mumtaz dismissed the notion that Sharmila was ever jealous of her closeness with Rajesh Khanna. She pointed out that Sharmila was married at the time and had \u2018beautiful kids.\u2019 She also admitted that Sharmila would always speak to her nicely whenever they met.<\/p>\n

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