Actor Prateik Babbar and his longtime girlfriend Priya Banerjee married on Friday (February 14). Recently, his stepbrother Aarya revealed that none of the Babbar family members, including their father, veteran actor Raj Babbar, have been invited to the wedding.
In an interview, Arya shared that the Babbar family was not invited as a whole. He expressed confusion over the decision, as he had assumed he and his half-brother were close.
He said, “I presume someone has overpowered his brain too much. He is not wanting to connect with anyone from this side of the family. He has decided not to call anyone.”
He admitted that while he could understand why Prateik might not want to invite Aarya’s mother, Nadira Babbar (his stepmother), he felt that Prateik should have at least invited their father, Raj Babbar. He added, “Life is no less than a film; someone in the house is influencing him. I don’t want to think it’s Prateik himself, and I don’t believe he’s like that.”
Prateik Babbar is the son of late actress Smita Patil and Raj Babbar. The couple met on the sets of their 1982 film Bheegi Palkein, and Raj left his first wife, Nadira Babbar, to marry Smita.
However, tragedy struck when Smita passed away due to childbirth complications at the age of 31, shortly after giving birth to Prateik in November 1986. Raj Babbar later reunited with Nadira and has two children with her, Aarya and Juhi Babbar.
