Rekha-Mukesh Aggarwal Marriage: Bollywood’s evergreen actress Rekha has enjoyed a lot of success in her professional life. The actress still rules the hearts of the audience. However, Rekha’s personal life has also been in the news. From her affair with co-stars to her marriage with businessman Mukesh Agarwal and her husband’s suicide, everyone talks about it today. But do you know that the Pandit who conducted the midnight marriage of Rekha and Mukesh Agarwal also had to pay a heavy price.
Rekha and Mukesh got married after meeting for just one month
Let us tell you that Rekha married Delhi based businessman Mukesh Agarwal. Both of them met at a party and Mukesh fell in love with Rekha. Both of them got married in a temple within a month of their meeting. Senior journalist and writer Yasir Usman has told in Rekha’s biopic ‘Rekha the Untold Story’ that getting Rekha and Mukesh Agarwal married at midnight proved very costly for the priest.
According to the book, it was 4th March 1990 when Mukesh suddenly reached Rekha’s house with actress and common friend Surinder Kaur and proposed her for marriage. After thinking for some time, Rekha also agreed for marriage.
Rekha and Mukesh got married in Mukteshwar Devalaya temple
As soon as Rekha agreed, Mukesh jumped with joy and said let’s get married right away. Although both their families were not in Mumbai at that time, they decided to get married that day. It was evening and Rekha was ready like a bride wearing a red and golden Kanjivaram saree and jewelry. It is further written in the book that after this Rekha and Mukesh set out in search of a temple in Juhu for marriage. They reached the ISKCON temple but found a lot of crowd there, after which both decided to get married in Mukteshwar Devalaya temple.
Breaking the rules of the temple, the priest got Rekha and Mukesh married
However, by then it was 10 o’clock at night and the temple priest Sanjay had also gone to sleep. But Mukesh woke up the priest and said that he wanted to get married right now. When he saw Rekha in front of him, the priest was also surprised and then the priest broke a rule of the temple and got Rekha and Mukesh Agarwal married.
The priest had to pay the price for breaking the rules of the temple
Actually, the rule of the temple was that the doors of the temple are not opened after the Aarti, but the priest broke this rule and got Rekha and Mukesh married at midnight. Later, when this matter came to light, the priest Sanjay Bodas was expelled from the temple.
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