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Zeeshan Ayyub opens up about interfaith marriage, growing up with a Hindu mother and Muslim father: ‘It wasn’t difficult’ | Bollywood News

Zeeshan Ayyub opens up about interfaith marriage, growing up with a Hindu mother and Muslim father: ‘It wasn’t difficult’ | Bollywood News

“Ours was a child marriage,” Bollywood actor Mohammed Zeeshan Ayyub joked while speaking about his marriage to theatre actor Rasika Agashe. In a recent interaction, Zeeshan opened up about his interfaith marriage to Rasika and shared how it came naturally to him, as his parents, too, belonged to different religions. While his mother is a Brahmin Hindu, his father is a Muslim. Speaking to Shubhankar Mishra, Zeeshan spoke about getting married soon after finishing theatre school. “We got married right after passing out from NSD. It was my first successful love story. I thought this was the first time a girl has said yes to me, before she understands me fully, let’s rope in and get married to her.” When asked about his interfaith marriage to Rasika and whether religious differences ever affected their relationship, Zeeshan said that love made everything seamless. “Love takes care of everything. It was not difficult. When it comes to cultural differences, it was easy for me as my mother is a Hindu Brahmin and since childhood, we would sit …