Archive · 20 Sep 2026
A Critic Recalls Dilip Kumar’s On-Again, Off-Again Marriage
A critic was invited to visit Saira aapa at her home in May 1982.
She wanted to talk about a newspaper report involving actor Dilip Kumar.
The report said that Kumar had married Asma Rehman about a year earlier.
It said they had met at a cricket match in Hyderabad.
During the visit, Kumar came downstairs and questioned the critic.
Saira aapa told Kumar to mind his own business.
Kumar then went back upstairs.
The marriage ended in January 1983.
In May 1982, Saira aapa invited the critic to her Pali Hill bungalow after a report about Dilip Kumar’s marriage.
The weekly tabloid Current reported that Dilip Kumar had married Asma Rehman about a year earlier.
The report described Asma Rehman as a divorced socialite with three children who met Kumar at a cricket match in Hyderabad.
During the visit, Dilip Kumar confronted the critic, who had been discussing the matter with Saira aapa.
The marriage between Asma Rehman and Dilip Kumar ended in January 1983.
- Who
- Dilip Kumar, Asma Rehman, Saira aapa, and the unnamed critic are central to the account.
- What
- A critic recounts discussing Dilip Kumar’s marriage to Asma Rehman with Saira aapa and encountering Kumar during the visit.
- When
- The conversation took place in May 1982; the marriage ended in January 1983.
- Where
- At a bungalow in Pali Hill; Kumar and Rehman reportedly met at a cricket match in Hyderabad.
- Visit date
- May 1982
- Location of conversation
- Saira aapa’s bungalow in Pali Hill
- Publication
- Current, edited by Ayub Syed
- Reported marriage
- Dilip Kumar married Asma Rehman about a year before the May 1982 conversation
- Reported meeting place
- A cricket match in Hyderabad
- Marriage’s end
- January 1983
- Reported evidence
- Current published a photograph and a facsimile of the marriage certificate