Jaya Prada Birthday: Jaya Prada married the father of 3 children, husband made her second wife without divorce

In the seventies and eighties, there were many such heroines in Bollywood who were ruling the hearts of millions of people from the film screen. One of them was Jaya Prada, whose 61st birthday is on 3rd April. Jaya Prada had set the film screen on fire with her acting and beauty. But later she distanced herself from the film world and entered politics. Jaya Prada had a lot of fire in the 70’s and 80’s. She used to be the first choice of the directors of that time. Jaya Prada is counted among the heroines of the 80s, who were getting the highest fees. But as much as Jaya Prada’s discussion was about her film career, there was more discussion about her personal life. Jaya Prada married producer Shrikant Nahata, due to which there was a lot of ruckus in the life of the actress.

Decided to love and marry Srikant

Actually Shrikant Nahta was already married and had three children. But there is a saying that whose emphasis is on love. Jaya Prada knew that Srikanth was married. Shrikant himself also knew that he had a wife and three children. Despite this, both of them fell in love with each other and then suddenly one day they decided to get married.

Love affair created ruckus

Jaya Prada and Shrikant Nahata’s love affair created a sensation in the entire film industry. He was being discussed everywhere. But there was a ruckus when Srikanth decided to settle down with Jaya Prada without divorcing his first wife. According to reports, because of this, Jaya Prada came to be called ‘second woman’.

Srikanth became the support of badly broken Jaya Prada

When and how did Jaya Prada and Srikant Nahata fall in love with each other? Its story is also interesting, but disputed. It was in the 80s when Jaya Prada became the highest paid actress of Bollywood. At that time she came on the radar of Income Tax and raids took place. It is said that Jaya Prada was badly broken after getting caught in the clutches of IT. There was no one in the industry who could support him. Even his film career started going downhill. Then producer Shrikant Nahata came forward to help Jaya Prada. Jaya Prada felt blessed to have a great support in the form of Srikanth in those difficult times. During the same time Jaya Prada and Srikant Nahata fell in love with each other.

marriage without divorcing the first wife

Gradually, the love affair of Jaya Prada and Shrikant Nahta spread in the film circles. Later Jaya Prada and Srikant Nahata got married. However, Srikanth did not divorce his first wife to marry Jaya. This created a lot of ruckus and Jaya Prada was given the tag of ‘the other woman’ in Srikanth’s life. It is said that even Srikanth’s first wife had no problem with her husband’s second marriage to Jaya Prada and never said anything.

​Srikanth’s wife knew about his affair with Jaya Prada

In an interview in 1986, Jaya Prada told about her marriage to Srikant Nahata and the reaction of her family. Talking to ‘Bollywood Memories’, Jaya had said that Srikanth had been the producer of some of her films and had supported her when she was going through difficult times. According to Jaya, when someone gives so much love and courage in difficult times, then you get attracted towards him. Jaya Prada had also told that Srikanth’s family knew about their affair and they never hid it.

Jaya Prada could not stay in her in-laws house even after wanting to

The marriage took place, but after this the downfall of Jaya Prada’s career started. Due to getting married, directors stopped giving films to Jaya Prada. Apart from this, even after getting married, she could not live with Srikanth in his house because his first wife and three children lived there. For this reason, Jaya Prada always remained Srikanth’s ‘second wife’.

Jaya Prada could not become a mother, adopted her sister’s son

Jaya Prada could never become a mother and hence she adopted her sister’s son. Jaya’s son Sidhu is working in South films.