Comedian, actor and occasional rapper Munawar Faruqui spilled the beans on his marriage to makeup artist Mehzabeen Coatwala on the latest episode of Farah Khan’s Youtube Vlog. The Bigg Boss 17 winner—whose wedding was in May last year—told Khan that he made the decision to get married because of his seven-year-old son Mikael.

It was apparently quite a short courtship, with the couple getting engaged just a month before the wedding.

“When I came out of Bigg Boss, I was busy with a lot of work,” Faruqui told Khan. “At that time, Mikael was living with my sister then. He was with me for a week and we spent a lot of time together. When he was leaving, I felt like I don’t want him to go. That time he kept hugging me the whole time, I felt that he needs me. At that point I wondered what I could do to keep him with me. For him, I took that decision. Even her [Mehzabeen’s] situation was quite similar like me. She has a 10-year-old daughter. I asked her the next day, ‘Are you okay marrying me?’ I stayed with that decision the whole night. I felt that Mikael should stay with me, I was just praying for that.”

Mikael is Faruqui’s son from his previous marriage with Jasmine. The marriage ended in a divorce in 2022, with Faruqui getting sole custody of his son.