Actress Suhasini Mulay and Atul Gurtu,Married

Multiple National award winning actress Suhasini Mulay, who can be seen in the film Yeh Faasley that is currently playing in cinema’s, continues to be true to her bohemian nature. The 60 –year- old actress surprised everyone recently by tying the knot to 65-year-old physicist Atul Gurtu.

Mulay made her debut as a 16 year old, in Mrinal Sen’s national award winning film Bhuvan Shome (1969). In spite of the film’s immense success, the beautiful actress shocked fans when she took a hiatus from acting. She went abroad to study and then returned to assist Oscar winning filmmaker Satyajit Ray on his films.

Utpal Dutt & Suhasini Mulay in Bhuvan ShomeAfter winning four national awards for making non-fictional documentaries, she made her comeback to acting after nearly 30 years in Gulzar’s Hu Tu Tu (1999). This time she won a national award for best supporting actress.

Mulay said in a candid interview that she and her husband were Facebook friends first, and before they dated, she even crosschecked his credentials on Google to be sure that he was not a fake. The sexagenarian couple started chatting in July, last year. After bonding on World Wide Web, the couple met for the first time in November 2010. Gurtu is a widower, his wife of 36 years succumbed to cancer a few years ago.

Facebook Friend & Husband: Atul Gurtu Funnily, when Mulay mentioned her marriage plans to her mother, she thought she was talking about getting married in a serial or film. Her sister accused Mulay of being drunk and by the end of their conversation, she wanted a drink herself.

Mulay, who has never been married before, was in a live-in relationship that ended in 1990 and has been living alone for the last 20 years. Mulay and Gurtu had a civil marriage at the Bandra court, Mumbai, and later had an Arya Samaj wedding on January 16th 2011.