Zeenat Aman fact-checks publication: ‘This is publicly available information, including on my Instagram’

Veteran actor Zeenat Aman is ruling on Instagram ever since her debut. Her heartfelt and thought-provoking posts have grabbed everyone’s attention. Now, in her recent Instagram stories, the actor has called out a mid-day report that put her on a list of Bollywood celebrities with mixed ethnicities.

She requested the publication to ‘double-check the facts’ before posting such information.

Sharing a screenshot of the article that was titled, ‘From Zeenat Aman to Nargis Fakhri, Bollywood Stars with Mixed Ethnicities’, Zeenat pointed out how the ‘facts’ which were shared in the article were inaccurate.

Tagging the portal, she wrote, ‘I'm happy to be in the company of these beautiful actors, but a sincere request to double check the facts before posting such articles. My mother was not 'German Christian'. She was an Indian Hindu, whose second marriage was to a German man. My father was an Indian Muslim. This is publicly available information, including on my Instagram. I am also NOT fluent in German, at most I can understand a smattering. Danke (Thanks in German)!’

Zeenat also shared the post about her mother in her next Instagram Story. Sharing the photo, the veteran actor praised her mother and said, ‘If I have lived an extraordinary life it’s because I was brought up by an extraordinary woman. My mother Vardhini Scharwachter was what you’d call a ‘pataka’. Elegant, intelligent, feisty and my pillar of support.’

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She further wrote, ‘She was a practicing Hindu and she epitomised the ideas of tolerance, love and empowerment. Her faith did not stop her from marrying my father Amanullah Khan. Later, after they had separated, she fell in love with and married a wonderful German man, whom I called Uncle Heinz. She taught me to stand on my own two feet and to live life on my own terms. She was truly the wind beneath my wings'.