Sara Ali Khan Grand Mother Rukhsana Sulatan: Bollywood actress Sara Ali Khan belongs to Pataudi family. Everyone knows that his father is Saif Ali Khan and his grandmother is Sharmila Tagore. But do you know that Sara Ali Khan’s maternal family is also a very famous family. Yes, Sara’s mother Amrita Singh also belongs to a well-known family of Delhi. It is said that Amrita Singh’s mother and Sara’s maternal grandmother Rukhsana Sultan had so much influence that Muslims were afraid of her.
Sara’s grandmother Rukhsana was close to Sanjay Gandhi
Sara’s maternal grandmother Rukhsana Sultana was extremely beautiful. She grew up in Punjab, British India and came to Delhi after Partition. She was married to Indian Army officer Shivinder Singh Virk. As a political activist, she became a close associate and friend of Sanjay Gandhi by the 1970s. Rukhsana’s name became famous during the Emergency in 1975–77. . Let us tell you that a sterilization campaign was launched during the Emergency and Sanjay Gandhi had given the responsibility of implementing this campaign on the shoulders of Rukhsana.
Why were Muslims afraid of Sara’s grandmother?
After this, Rukhsana led Sanjay Gandhi’s sterilization campaign in the Muslim areas of Old Delhi. He was accused of forcibly sterilizing thousands of men. According to media reports, during that time people ranging from 18 years to 60 years of age were being forcibly sterilized. Even such young men who were not even married were sterilized. Due to this campaign, Muslims started fearing the name of Rukhsana. It is said that whenever there was a rumor that Rukhsana was near Jama Masjid or Turkman Gate, Muslim men used to hide in their homes. However, after the emergency was lifted, Rukhsana stayed away from these news also.
,Emergency’s glamor girl Sara’s grandmother was famous as
Rukhsana was the daughter of Zarina, whose sister Begum Para was one of the leading actresses of Bollywood in the 1950s. Just as Begum Para was called the ‘Glamour Girl of Bollywood’, similarly Rukhsana was called the ‘Glamor Girl of Emergency’. In 1958, Rukhsana gave birth to daughter Amrita Singh. Later, Amrita Singh tried her career in films and became one of the top actresses of her generation in the 80s.
After Sanjay’s untimely death and subsequent assassination of Indira Gandhi, Rukhsana retired from public life. By then Amrita had also started her film career. Former political activist Rukhsana Sultan currently stays away from the limelight.