Bollywood filmmaker Hansal Mehta surprised his fans and film fraternity by announcing his wedding to his partner of 17 years, social entrepreneur Safeena Husain. In 2017, Safeena was honoured with the Women Transforming India award from Smriti Irani. She is the founder of the organisation ‘Educate Girls’ that champions the cause to educate the girl child. 

Sharing pictures from what looked like a registered court marriage, Mehta captioned it, “So after 17 years, two children, watching our two sons grow up and chasing our respective dreams we decided to get hitched. As always in life this marriage was also impromptu and unplanned. Ultimately love prevails over all else. And it has…” Actor Pratik Gandhi who has starred in Mehta’s Scam 1992 commented, “This is lovely. Well it’s inspiring and pressurising too.”