Shabana Azmi says people ‘flung mud’ at her for marrying Javed Akhtar: ‘I stamped over Honey Irani’s rights for my own happiness’ | Bollywood News
Javed Akhtar, who was married to Honey Irani for about 13 years, divorced her in 1985 and went on to marry Shabana Azmi. However, Shabana’s fans were quite disappointed in her and in a recent interview, Shabana said that her fans in right in feeling so. Her fans felt that she was “stamping over” Honey Irani’s rights by marrying the veteran lyricist. Back then, Shabana, Javed and Honey stayed silent on the subject but the people “flung mud” at Shabana. In a recent conversation with Filmfare, Shabana shared people’s disappointment in her was fair. She explained, “It was fair because I was this feminist model and I had done something that was inexplicable. It was like everything I had said, I was stamping over another woman’s rights for my own happiness. I think people who followed me as a feminist had every right to feel that.” While her followers were extremely upset with her, Shabana decided staying quiet on this would be a wiser decision than trying to give an explanation. She shared, “What I …