Popular Indian actress and an amazing screenwriter, Honey Irani recently shared her story of falling in love and getting proposed by Javed Akhtar during a heartfelt interview with Filmfare. In the interview, she spoke about falling in love on the sets of Seeta Aur Geeta, and recalled the game of cards, which led to an iconic and sweet proposal by her husband, Javed Akhtar. Without any further ado, let’s dive into their proposal incident.
A sweet proposal while playing a game of cards
Honey Irani in a podcast by Filmfare, called In The Ring, where she very fondly recalled the beginning of her love story with Javed Akhtar. A love story that blossomed on the sets of Seeta Aur Geeta, where he was working as a dialogue writer along with Salim Khan. Honey was a young popular actress, while Javed was just making a name for himself in the industry. She started by sharing that during a break, they were playing a card game, where Javed was losing and he jokingly asked Honey to pick up a card. When she did, it turned out to be the winning card for him and a happy Javed said:
“You are so lucky for me, I think I should marry you.”