Aamir Khan's brother Faissal Khan reveals his family forced him to marry his aunt

Faissal said that he married a woman in August 2002, but the couple split in December of same year. He claimed that following his divorce, his relatives pushed him to marry his aunt. He said, "My family was pressuring me to marry my aunt, my mother’s first cousin. I never wanted that, but from that time, they started putting pressure on me to get married. I was focused on my work and not interested at all. Because of this, I had many arguments with my family. So I started living away from them, because whenever I met them, there would be fights about this, and I really don’t like fighting. My family got angry, and my mother got angry, because I refused to marry my aunt."

Faissal further added, "When I got upset with my family, I wrote a letter. I wrote about every family member’s story. Nikkhat, my elder sister, got married three times. Aamir was married to Reena Dutta. He was having an affair with Jessica Hines, and they even have an illegitimate child out of wedlock. At that time, he was living in with Kiran. I wrote all this in the letter, so they became angry with me. Then everyone turned against me and said, ‘Declare him mad.'"

On cutting ties from his family

In an interview with Pinkvilla, Faissal claimed that his brother Aamir and family locked him up in the house for over a year, declaring that he had schizophrenia and was 'a mad person who can harm society'. Following this, Aamir and his family released a joint statement expressing their displeasure with what they termed as 'hurtful and false' representations of family members. A huge number of family members signed the statement, including Reena Datta, Junaid Khan, Ira Khan, Farhat Datta, Rajiv Datta, Kiran Rao, Santosh Hegde, Seher Hegde, Mansoor Khan, Nuzhat Khan, Imran Khan, Tina Fonseca, Zayn Marie Khan, and Pablo Khan.

Faissal then shared on his Instagram handle a statement announcing that he has cut all ties with his family, "With a heavy heart yet renewed courage, I wish to share that I have severed all family ties, as declared through a public notice. This step, though difficult, is essential for my healing and growth. Life now enters a new chapter of freedom, dignity, and self-discovery — one that I embrace with positivity, truth, and strength."

Faissal made his Bollywood debut with Pyar Ka Mausam in 1969 and followed it with films like Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak, Jo Jeeta Wohi Sikandar, Madhosh, Mela, Border Hindustan Ka and more. He was recently seen in the 2022 Kannada crime thriller Oppanda, starring Arjun Sarja, Radhika Kumaraswamy, and J. D. Chakravarthy.