The actress on whom Govinda was infatuated, was ready to leave Sunita too, came forward after years and broke silence on the affair.

New Delhi. Govinda was an actor of the 90s who was a guaranteed hit. He did many films one after the other and shook the box office. Govinda has worked with many beauties on screen, but people liked his pairing with some actresses a lot. This list includes names ranging from Karisma Kapoor, Raveena Tandon to Neelam Kothari. He worked with Neelam not in two-four but in 14 films. People liked the pair so much that discussions started that there is some affair going on between the two. However, both of them never opened their mouth on these news. Now after years, Neelam Kothari has broken her silence on ‘link-up’ with Govinda.

Neelam Kothari is enjoying the new season of the Netflix release, ‘Fabulous Lives vs Bollywood Wives’. Recently she gave an interview to Hotterfly, in which she talked about her career and how being an actress in the industry was different from being a male actor. In the conversation, he also talked about his linkup with Govinda.

If you have done more than 2-3 films, then…
Neelam said, ‘I think the linkup was part of the whole game. There was no one to explain. At that time, whatever he felt like, he published it. To be honest, I think in those days we were afraid of the press. Because that was the power of the pen and that was a part of it. If you did more than 2-3 films, it was just considered that… (you are dating).

Used to praise Neelam with Sunita
Govinda had said during a conversation with Stardust in 1990 that he was in love with Neelam. He had said, ‘I could not stop praising Neelam. I used to talk about him to my friends, my family, even Sunita. I used to tell Sunita to change herself and become like Neelam.

When Govinda told Sunita to leave me
In this interview, Govinda had told that there was a lot of fight between him and Sunita. Govinda said, ‘After the fight, I was ready to end my relationship with Sunita. I told Sunita to leave me, I had broken the engagement with her. If Sunita had not called me after five days and convinced me to get engaged again, I might have married Neelam.

Neelam Kothari has been a part of many blockbuster films.

Had distanced himself from cinema for jewelery business
Neelam was one of the most popular actresses of Hindi cinema in the 80s and 90s. After her debut in 1985, she acted in more than 30 films over the next decade, including hits like Hum Saath Saath Hain. She left films in the late 90s to focus on her jewelery business and has recently returned to showbiz. Let us tell you that Neelam married actor Sameer Soni in the year 2011 and settled her house.

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