Recently, Suchitra Pillai who is known for her role in Dil Chahta Hai made a surprising link between herself and Preity Zinta in an interview. She shared that her husband, Lars Kjeldsen, had once been involved with Preity Zinta. Yet she was quick to point out that she did not come between them and addressed the rumors and misconceptions about their involvement.
Suchitra Pillai on how Preity Zinta’s ex-boyfriend is also her husband Lars Kjeldsen: “We were never friends at all”
Just the other day, Suchitra told The Indian Express that, “No it is not true; this story comes from somebody else… I know Preity but we are not friends since we only have a common friend. But yes, he was dating Preity Zinta earlier for some time before he met me.” She insisted that their romantic relationship ended before she appeared on the scene.
Describing what happened during those days as ‘boyfriend snatcher’, Suchitra stated: “…The biggest news that happened which was so wrong as well was when I came back from England. There were several magazines at that time terming me as a boyfriend snatcher. One headline read thus: ‘Suchitra Pillai is a boyfriend snatcher’. It started because I got together with Andrew Coyne, who had established Star Television in India. However his partner Achala Sachdev fell apart not because of me but merely due to my entry into their lives – it’s water under the bridge after so many years and I laugh about it with Achala.”
They married in 2005 and have one child called Annika Kjeldsen while Preity tied the knot with Gene Goodenough in 2016 before having twins Gia and Jai through surrogate motherhood last year. At present she is in India shooting Lahore 1947 opposite Sunny Deol which marks her return to Hindi cinema after a long hiatus. This film, made by Rajkumar Santoshi and produced by Aamir Khan, is expected to be a major project with a great cast and crew consisting of Shabana Azmi, AR Rahman, Javed Akhtar etc.
