In a recent interview, Juhi Chawla opened up about her decision to have a low-key wedding with Jay Mehta and revealed shocking details.
Juhi Chawla won the Miss India pageant in 1984 and impressed the audience with her breakthrough performance in her debut film, Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak. Since then, she has given back-to-back successes in some of the most iconic films of her career. In her personal life, Juhi married industrialist, Jay Mehta in 1995, and they welcomed two kids, Jahanvi Mehta and Arjun Mehta. Juhi, who has been married to Jay for 29 years, spilled the beans on their low-key wedding ceremony.
During a candid conversation at the Gujarat Chamber of Commerce & Industry, Juhi Chawla opened up about her wedding to Jay Mehta and shared that she was shooting many big movies back then and was afraid of losing her career. She added that she was overwhelmed with the idea of a grand wedding and broke down in front of her mother-in-law one day. Juhi said:
“I was shooting for some of the really big films of my career and I was supposed to get married. My mother had just passed a year ago. When the marriage date was coming close, I was thinking my mother is gone, whom I loved the most, and now my career will also go away. I didn’t know how to be happy about it. So, I broke down one day and I told my mother-in-law and she said, ‘It’s okay.’”
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Juhi further added that her mother-in-law convinced the family not to go overboard with the former's wedding and even cancelled almost 2000 invitations, which were sent to guests all around the world. The actress said that she got married to Jay at their home in the presence of their family and closest friends. In her words:
“She convinced the family to not have the big wedding and I got married at home with just the family and closest friends in attendance. So with just 80-90 people present. Imagine your mother-in-law cancelling the invites that had already been sent out.”
Juhi Chawla came to know about the untimely demise of her mother, Mona Chawla, while she was shooting for the movie, Duplicate, in the year 1998. It was Jay who helped her cope with the huge loss as he too had seen such misfortune when he lost his first wife, Sujata Birla, in a plane crash in 1990. Talking about the same, in an old interview with CNN-News18, Juhi recalled:
“That was a very difficult time for me, because I felt I was going to lose everything I loved. From then on, everywhere I went, he turned up. Everywhere I looked, he was there with flowers and notes and gifts. Every day! On my birthday, I remember he sent me a truckload of red roses. I was like, ‘What do you do with a truckload of flowers?’ He really did all he could. After a year, he proposed.”
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Earlier, in an interview with Rajeev Masand, Juhi Chawla talked about why she wanted to hide her wedding with Jay Mehta from the public eye. The actress was at the peak of her career when she got married and had just settled down successfully. She was afraid that her marriage would have an adverse impact on her newly built career, so she decided to keep it a secret until she was pregnant with their first child.
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