This Bollywood icon cancelled her grand wedding to billionaire, uninvited 2,000 guests, only to marry him at home
Here's the latest relationship update doing the rounds:
Despite being one of the biggest actors of the 1990s, Juhi Chawla has largely kept her personal life away from the limelight. While followers have always been curious about her marriage to billionaire industrialist and Mehta Group chairman Jay Mehta , the star has rarely spoken about her relationship or married life. However, on a few occasions, Juhi has opened up about her wedding and shared some interesting anecdotes about her life with Jay.
Adding to this, Juhi Chawla and Jay Mehta tied the knot in 1995. When Juhi Chawla doubted her marriage would end her career As per reports, Juhi and Jay were introduced by filmmaker Rakesh Roshan, and they eventually fell in love and tied the knot. In 2024, at an event hosted by the Gujarat Chamber of Commerce & Industry, Juhi had opened up about her wedding and opened up that she was initially supposed to have a grand ceremony with around 2,000 guests. However, having lost her mother a year earlier, the star admitted that she was going through emotional turmoil and wanted to cancel the big-fat wedding.
Meanwhile, During the interaction, Juhi also admitted that she was worried that getting married would mark the end of her career. Amid all these emotions, the idea of a big wedding became overwhelming for her. She shared, “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.”
Notably, As per a report in the Times Of India, The Mehta Group business empire that he chairs is valued at over ₹ 17,500 crore rupees ($2.1 billion).
As per the latest buzz, While it may have been difficult for many families to accept, Jay Mehta’s mother and Juhi’s mother-in-law prioritised her emotions over the elaborate wedding plans. Juhi shared that despite invitations having been sent out to around 2,000 guests, the wedding was called off in its original form and the couple instead got married at home in a quiet ceremony attended only by family and close friends.
In further updates, Sharing the same, she shared, “My mother-in-law shared, ‘It’s okay.’ Can you imagine your mother-in-law doing it for you? Invitations had gone out to maybe 2000 people. She shared, 'Abhi nahi horahi hai (It's not happening now)'. She convinced the family to not have the big wedding, and I got married, but it was at home with just the family and closest friends. So with just 80-90-100 people, the wedding was done. Imagine your mother-in-law cancelling those invitations which had gone out all over the world.”
On top of that, The couple got married in 1995. They became parents to two children, daughter Jhanvi and son Arjun.
Jay Mehta is a romantic at heart and Juhi once spoke about his grand romantic gestures during their courtship that proved the same.
Source: Hindustan Times