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Rati Agnihotri opens up about marriage abuse

Rati Agnihotri
Rati Agnihotri

In one of her most open interviews, Rati Agnihotri has spoken out about her 30-year old marriage abuse.

Talking to Mumbai Mirror about the pain she endured, she explained why it took so long for her to report the crime. “Well, I had certain priorities, the biggest being my son Tanuj. He was the reason I put up with all this pain for 30 years. I also believed in the sanctity of marriage… I believed in love. Anil was the man I had married despite the fact that my parents had never liked him. And like every girl I’d dreamt of a picture-perfect life with a husband who cared and provided for me. For all these years I’d hoped… prayed… that things would change, that he would change.”

Rati married her husband, Anil Virwani in 1985. In the interview, Agnihotri said that Virwani started losing his cool and abused her in the initial years of their marriage. The report adds that “each of those instances of beating that had her running around this penthouse like a terrified animal, trying to escape her husband’s blows, is etched in her mind.”

She quit films for marriage after a successful career with hits like ‘Ek Duje Ke Liye’, ‘Coolie’ and ‘Tawaif’.