New Delhi:
Prateik Smita Patil’s family dynamics got here beneath public scrutiny when his father Raj Babbar and household weren’t invited at his wedding ceremony to Priya Banerjee on February 14. Prateik hosted an intimate and personal ceremony at his late mom Smita Patil’s home. In a current interview with Zoom, Prateik revealed the true cause why he did not invite Raj Babbar and his household to wedding ceremony and the home performed an important position behind his determination.
Prateik shared his mother and step-mother (Nadira Babbar) had points prior to now. To guard the sanctity of the home and his wedding ceremony, he did not wish to invite Raj Babbar and his household on the wedding ceremony which came about at his mom’s home.
“My father’s spouse and my mom had some problems prior to now, plenty of issues have been mentioned within the press and stuff like that should you dig out 38-40 years in the past. I used to be open to doing one thing with my father and his household for one more operate.
“I simply thought it was unethical to have him and his household at that home when after the whole lot had went on between them. Completely, it wasn’t proper. The correct factor to do was to what we did after which if, clearly now circumstances are completely different, the whole lot is gone South and it is extraordinarily sophisticated. Nevertheless it’s not for me. I am nonetheless the identical,” Prateik advised Zoom.
Raj Babbar and his household’s absence on the wedding ceremony triggered huge hypothesis in regards to the household’s rift. Discarding such potentialities, Prateik mentioned folks mentioned issues out of “impulse.”
“It wasn’t about rejecting anybody. It was about respecting my mom and her needs… I am sorry my father and his spouse couldn’t be there, couldn’t be in the home my mom purchased for me to develop up and dwell a life as a single mom. She wished to dwell in that home with me as a single mom. Deliver me up. I am sorry.
“That was the very best determination my spouse and I made. And it may have been very, very delicate situation and the whole lot may have been delicate. However individuals are impulsive, folks make impulsive selections and say issues out of impulse and it was simply distasteful and I believe that bitter style has remained,” mentioned Prateik.
Prateik is the son of veteran actor Raj Babbar and the late actress Smita Patil. After Smita Patil’s premature demise, Raj Babbar married Nadira Babbar, and so they had two kids, Arya Babbar and Juhi Babbar.
Earlier than Priya Banerjee, Prateik was married to Sanya Sagar. They married in 2019 however parted methods in 2023.