Govinda was one of the biggest movie stars of his time. He worked with many actresses and still has a huge fan following. His chemistry was most loved with Raveena Tandon, Karishma Kapoor and Neelam Kothari.
Govinda became a huge movie star in the Hindi film industry after he made his debut with Love 86, and within the next few years, he was a force to be reckoned with. It was during this time that he and his wife, Sunita, were in a secret relationship with each other. They got engaged and kept it a secret for almost a year but, during all this he fell in love with his co-star Neelam Kothari too.
Govinda wanted to marry Neelam Kothari
Govinda revealed his feelings for The Fabulous Lives Of Bollywood Wives Actress in a throwback interview with Stardust. He had said, “We became friends. And we had so many films together. We met so often, and the more I got to know her, the more I liked her. She was the kind of woman any man would have lost his heart to. I lost mine.” He even broke off his engagement with Sunita because he wanted to marry Neelam.
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"I asked Sunita to leave me. I broke off my engagement with her. Had Sunita not called me after five days and coaxed me into it again, I would probably have married Neelam. I wanted to marry her. And I don’t think there’s anything wrong with that," he said.
We were poles apart: Govinda
Govinda soon realised that Neelam was not keen to get married as at that time, her prime focus was only on her career. "She wanted an intelligent, well-to-do, good-looking man as a husband. And I was anything but that. She belonged to the upper strata and I was a dehati, coming from a lower-middle-class family. We were poles apart in every way. We probably would never have been successful as a married couple. And maybe, Neelam realised that," Govinda added.
Actor Govinda and his wife Sunita have been married for over 35 years and are parents to a son and a daughter.
Neelam on the other hand, has been married to actor Samir Soni for over 13 years and have a daughter together.