Yesteryear actress Meena Kumari, famous as Bollywood's Tragedy Queen, lived a life full of series of upheavals including the humiliation and pain of a triple talaq. After falling in love with filmmaker Kamal Amrohi, the actress married him in 1952. However, the marriage soon hit the rocks, and once, in a fit of anger, Amrohi pronounced the triple talaq.
As the incident broke the Meena, the couple later decided to remarry, which is when she had to undergo the draconian practice of the nikah halala. As per the ritual, a divorced woman has to marry another man first, consummate the marriage, and secure a divorce by mutual consent before being allowed to reunite with the first husband. Meena married actress Zeenat Aman's father Amaan Ullah Khan, divorcing him after a month to remarry Amrohi.
