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The announcement of our engagement on October 2, 1966, reverberated with sensational and joyous tidings all over the country. It was an indescribable experience.The media was splashing the news all over and the radio stations kept on announcing .
The news of our forthcoming marriage came as a surprise to all those who had thought I was an unrelenting, highly eligible bachelor who would never settle down, Dilip Kumar writes in his autobiography The Substance and The Shadow.