21 sensational second marriages of Bollywood

  • Madhubala first met Kishore Kumar during the filming of Chalti Ka Naam Gaadi. The couple's marriage was the most eccentric and controversial one of Bollywood and it lasted for nine years till the latter succumbed to her illness in 1969.

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  • It was a love story with a sad ending. Raj Babbar who went for a second marriage with actor Smita Patil, lost her immediately after she gave birth to their son Prateik.

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  • Sanjay Khan and Zeenat Aman fell in love on the sets of Abdullah. They apparently secretly got married soon after. But there was trouble in paradise when allegedly he and Zarine Khan (Sanjay's first wife) assaulted Zeenat.

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  • Yesteryear's item queen Helen married actor and screenwriter Salim Khan in 1981 when he was already married to Salma.

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  • Kamal Hasan got married to pretty Sarika after leaving his first wife. The couple though sadly drifted apart.

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  • Mithun is known to be married to Yogita Bali, ex-wife of Kishore Kumar. However, Mithun was also alleged to have been secretly married to actress Sridevi for sometime.  Theoretically, when Yogeeta tried to commit suicide, the couple decided to move apart.

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  • Vinod Khanna married Kavita in 1990. The two have a son Sakshi, and a daughter Shraddha.

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  • Their's is undoubtedly an interesting love story. Dharmendra fell in love with Hema Malini on the sets of Sholay. He was already married by then. Moreover, he was 13 years her senior. However, this did not stop him from taking the leap. He apparently converted to Islam, to marry her.

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  • One of the most loved couples in Bollywood, Javed Akhtar and Shabana Azmi got married in 1984 after his divorce with Honey Irani. Today, Shabana Azmi and Javed Akhtar is happily married.

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  • Anupam and Kirron Kher have been married to each other for a long time now. It is a second marriage for both of them. Kirron feels that Anupam is the most romantic man she has met in her life.

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  • Neelam Kothari and Sameer Soni got married in 2011. They dated for three years before they finally got hitched.

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  • Boney Kapoor was already married to Mona Shourie Kapoor when Sridevi came into his life. What followed is a tale of undaunting love. Today, the couple has two daughters, Jhanvi and Khushi.

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  • Raveena Tandon married film distributor Anil Thadani in 2004. The divorce between him and his ex-wife Natasha Sippy was controversial as Raveena was blamed by the Sippys' for the divorce. However, nothing affected the couple and today they are happily married.

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  • While the entire country was expecting a match between Abhishek Bachchan and Karishma, the Kapoor lass surprised every one by marrying divorcee Sanjay Kapur, an industrialist way back in 2003. Sanjay was previously married to designer Nandita Mahtani. Karishma and Sanjay now have two kids, named Samaira and Kiaan.

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  • Mahesh Bhupathi, the tennis super star was earlier married to model Shvetha Jaishankar before he fell in love with Lara Dutta. The couple has a baby girl.

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  • Anurag Kashyap and Kalki Koechlin are hardly alike but, very much in love with each other. Infact, Anurag did not like her the first time he met Kalki.

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  • Businessman Raj Kundra got married for the second time to Bollywood actress Shilpa Shetty. They now have a baby boy.

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  • Even a 19 year age gap between Sanjay Dutt and Manyata doesn't seem to affect them. Currently,  Manyata is penning a biography on Dutt.

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  • Love happened for a second time for Aamir Khan when he met the intelligent Kiran Rao. The couple seems extremely affectionate towards each other.

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  • Even with an age difference of 11 years Saif and Bebo is one couple smitten by each other. This is not the first time where our junior Nawab is married to someone with a huge age gap. He and Amrita Singh had an age difference of 12 years.

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  • Who says you don't get lucky a second time? Have a look at some of the most sensational second marriages of Bollywood.
    After a long and zealously guarded courtship, the Rani Mukerji and Aditya Chopra finally tied the knot in a secret wedding ceremony in Paris.

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