Rekha did get married. She is a widow. Her husband Mukesh died by suicide. He was reportedly a Delhi based businessman.
Just because she does not talk about that chapter in her life now, or dresses up in finery, it does not mean she was never married.
I sometimes wonder if she avoids talking about her late husband to avoid pain of those memories or did she never love him at all and had no attachment to him?
Rekha was blamed for his suicide and almost projected as a national vamp then. Anupam Kher even went to extent of saying publicly that no one will want an actress as wife or bahu after this. Rekha became a recluse for some time in early 90s. She returned to limelight only later when blame game and brickbats, theories, speculations around her husband's death stopped. She purposely avoids reference to her husband.
Partly why her wearing sindoor generated controversies was some old timers wondering why she wore sindoor being a widow. It was not just Amitabh link which made people question her wearing sindoor.
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