Neila devi biography sample

Shammi Kapoor may have serenaded dazzling beauties on the screen but his real heroine lay back at home. Someone who rescued him from a life gone awry.

Someone who chose not to have children of her own in a bid to nurture with utmost fairness his two from an earlier marriage to the late actor Geeta Bali. When Neila Devi Gohil, from the royal family of Bhavnagar, agreed to marry superstar Shammi Kapoor, she knew she was not living out a fairytale.

Neila devi biography sample

“Yes, I was a big fan of Shammiji. I had all his press cuttings, even those from Filmfare. And I also knew about his wild reputation. I was aware of his good and bad side. In my wildest dreams I had never imagined marrying him.

Neila devi biography sample pdf

At 27, I was not a kid who’d get excited at the thought of marrying a star. In fact, I was scared by the proposal,” reveals Neila Devi who was 10 years his junior. “People gave our marriage two months. But the Rajput in me took on the challenge