Amitabh and Jaya Bachchan : Jaya first met Amitabh at an institute, found him rather interesting and was eager to do a movie with the actor. Her wish was granted when she was cast in 'Guddi' in 1971, where Amitabh had a cameo role. Jaya also acted with him in 'Zanjeer' and the duo fell in love on the sets. When the two decided to celebrate the success of 'Zanjeer' in London, Amitabh's parents wanted the pair to get married before leaving on a trip together and so they married in 1973.
On Big B and Jaya Bachchan’s 40th anniversary, we look back at some other Bollywood couples who met on the sets and fell in love!
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Sushant Singh Rajput and Ankita Lokhande: The vivacious Ankita met her introvert beau Sushant Singh Rajput on the sets of her debut serial 'Pavitra Rishta'. Their romance is the stuff Bollywood movies are made of! Ankita and Sushant met, fought, drove each other to hell and back and fell in love. We hope that they take their relationship to the next level and spin a happily ever after story.
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Saif Ali Khan and Kareena Kapoor: Chhote Nawab Saif Ali Khan and his Chammak Challo Kareena Kapoor got married in October last year and their love story is nothing short of a fairytale! Saif met Bebo while filming for the box office disaster 'Tashan' in 2007. Saif, who had just broken up with Italian starlet Rosa, found solace in bubbly Kareena, who had also recently parted ways with Shahid Kapoor. The duo lived together for a while, before getting hitched in a 'Nawabi' wedding!
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Riteish Deshmukh and Genelia: Riteish and Genelia fell in love on the sets of their first movie together 'Tuje Meri Kasam' in 2003, dated for almost a decade and married in an elaborate Maharshtrian and Church wedding in February 2011.
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Aishwarya and Abhishek Bachchan: Although Aishwarya and Abhishek worked together in 'Dhai Akshar Prem Ke' in 2000, it was during the shooting of 'Umrao Jaan' in 2006 that sparks began to fly. They were spotted at various places together, including the IIFA awards in 2006. As the whole world waited with bated breath to know if the two would go the whole nine-yards or not, the engagement was announced in January 2007, and the couple finally married in April in the same year. The couple was blessed with a baby girl in November 2011.
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Aamir khan and Kiran Rao: It was 2002, when Aamir Khan first met future wife Kiran Rao on the sets of his blockbuster, 'Lagaan', where Rao was one of the assistant directors. The reclusive Khan got hitched to his bespectacled beauty in a very private ceremony in 2005 at Mumbai, and the ceremony was followed by a party thrown for a few select Bollywood friends at a resort in Panchagani. The couple was blessed with a boy December 2011.
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Akshay Kumar and Twinkle Khanna: Nobody thought that Akshay, a Casanova, would settle down with any woman and much less with Twinkle, with whom he was engaged to twice! But Akki shut up his detractors by marrying Twinkle in 2001, who he had known since their 1999 movie together 'International Khiladi'. They two have a son and were recently blessed with a girl.
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Kajol and Ajay Devgn: The couple apparently fell in love while working together for the 1995 film 'Hulchal'. Kajol dedicated an award she won for 'Dilwale Dulhania Le Jaayenge' to 'an anonymous person shooting in Darjeeling', and it was revealed that she was seeing Devgn. After dating for five years, the pair decided to walk down the aisle in 1999.
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Rishi Kapoor and Neetu Singh: Rishi and Neetu, who starred in many movies together, fell for each other while shooting for 'Khel Khel Mein' in 1975. With many successful films together, the fates had almost decided that the two must get hitched and they married in 1981, after a much publicized engagement announced during Rishi's sister Ritu Nanda's wedding in New Delhi.
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Hema Malini and Dharmendra: The 'Dream Girl' was being pursued by many leading men of her time, but she had eyes only for the handsome Dharmendra, with whom she fell in love on the sets of their blockbuster hit 'Sholay'. Dharmendra married Hema, while he was still married to his first wife Prakash Kaur. While some reports say the duo wed at Khandala in an Iyengar style wedding, others suggest that they married in an Islamic ceremony in order to make the marriage legal.
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Shammi Kapoor and Geeta Bali : The larger-than-life actor met Geeta when she did a cameo in 'Rangeen Raaten' in 1955, in which he was playing the lead. During the outdoor shoots at Ranikhet, the duo fell in love with each other, but were apprehensive about marriage as Bali was a year older than Kapoor. They eventually tied the knot at Banganga Temple in Mumbai with only Hari Walia as the witness. They stayed blissfully in love until Bali passed away due to small pox in 1965.
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Dev Anand and Kalpana Karthik : The dashing star fell head-over-heels in love with his co-star Kalpana Karthik on the sets of the movie 'Taxi Driver' and immediately proposed marriage to her. The couple got married in an intimate ceremony in 1954. Kalpana's debut Bollywood movie 'Baazi' (1951) also starred her future husband in a leading role.
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Sunil Dutt and Nargis: In true filmy style, their love story began when Dutt saved his future wife Nargis from a fire accident on the sets of their movie, 'Mother India' in 1957. After a brief courtship, they married a year later in 1958. Although society found their union hard to swallow as they had played mother and son onscreen, they managed to move past all that and lived a happy life until Nargis' death in 1981.
