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There are many love stories in Bollywood which were completed even though they remained incomplete. Many tales and stories were written about these love stories. One such story is of Rajesh Khanna. An entire book can be written on the personal life of the actor. Rajesh Khanna’s name was associated with everyone from Anju Mahendru to Anita Advani and amidst all this, he was also married to actress Dimple Kapadia who was half his age.
Rajesh Khanna was one of the biggest superstars of his time and probably the first superstar of his time. His professional life was full of success, but the actor’s personal life was full of turmoil. Not just one but many women came into his life, but his relationship with none of them was tension free.
Rajesh Khanna’s love life and relationship made a lot of headlines. The most talked about relationship of the veteran actor was with Anju Mahendru. He was in a live-in relationship with actress Anju Mahendru from 1966 to 1972. Their relationship was close but faced challenges, including Khanna’s perceived possessiveness.
According to the claims of media reports, Anju was progressing in her career, which Rajesh Khanna’s male ego could not tolerate at all. He wanted to establish his authority over them. They wanted to stop her from working and it was not acceptable for Anju Mahendru to be under anyone’s control.
According to reports, Anju’s close friend and star Sanjeev Kumar had warned her about Khanna’s suspicious nature, suggesting that she would not be able to live a happy life with him and that he would never marry her.
Later, Rajesh Khanna married actress Dimple Kapadia, who was half his age, and the news made headlines. But the most shocking thing was that he took out his marriage procession in front of his ex-girlfriend Anju Mahendru’s house to burn her.
The relationship between Anju and Rajesh Khanna was very deep. There was a lot of love between the two, but his ex-girlfriend Anju was not unhappy with ‘Kaka’s’ marriage because her close friend Sanjeev Kumar had already warned her about Rajesh Khanna’s behavior and self-obsessed nature.
Rajesh Khanna and Dimple Kapadia met in a private plane. Rajesh Khanna was convinced of Dimple’s beauty as soon as he saw her at first sight. While talking to FICCI, Dimple had said, ‘I very cleverly told her, ‘There will be a lot of crowd there. Will you hold my hand, right?’ He said, ‘Yes of course.’ I replied, ‘Forever?’ And the rest is history. is it done.’
Rajesh Khanna and Dimple Kapadia got married within a week of their first meeting. Dimple and Khanna got married in March 1973. There was a lot of discussion about their marriage, especially because of the age difference between the two, it became the talk of the town.
After the success of Bobby, Dimple Kapadia was flooded with film offers. However, after marriage, Rajesh Khanna reportedly limited her acting career. At the same time, the superstar himself was facing many flop films at the box office.
Rajesh Khanna and Dimple Kapadia’s perfect story soon turned into chaos, and in a conversation with India Today, the actress had shared, ‘Happiness in our home ended the day I married Rajesh’.
