When Dilip Kumar's Second Wife Asma Fled To Canada After Their Marriage Fell Apart: 'I Just Wanted To...'

Dilip Kumar’s whirlwind romance with his second wife Asma Rehman didn’t last long, but the drama surrounding their marriage sure did. After tying the knot, Asma faced intense backlash from fans, leading her to flee to Canada for some peace. But the media frenzy followed her there too!

In a 1983 interview in Vancouver shared by ITMB Shows on YouTube, Asma mentioned that she relocated there after her marriage ended. When asked about the constant media attention in her life, she said there was little she could do to change it. She revealed, “What do I do? Even I don’t like it but what can one do about it? Even in India, the media was after my life and I thought it will be more peaceful in Vancouver but it feels like I am not meant to have peace,” she said and added, “I feel there is a total lack of privacy no matter where I go. I really don’t like it.”

Asma talked about her move to Canada, saying she wanted to be near her family and escape the media pressure she faced in India. She had said, “Firstly, I wanted to move here because I have family here. Secondly, it was because of the media which was hounding me. I just wanted to get away from it but I just can’t.”

Asma said that 95 percent of what was reported about her and Dilip Kumar was untrue. She said, “People write whatever they want, they just want to fill up the space. 95 percent of the things that were written about me were false.” She said that no one knew their private conversations and noted that people often had wild imaginations when creating stories. “Conversations that take place between two people, which are personal and private in nature, how can anyone know about them? But these people’s imagination is just so wild that they just make up stories,” she said.

Dilip Kumar, the once charming bachelor of Bollywood, married Saira Banu at 44 when she was just 22. But after 16 years, he shocked everyone by secretly marrying Asma Rehman, which left him filled with regret. Saira found out about the marriage through the papers and, though she initially didn’t believe it, the truth soon broke her heart.