In the 90’s Bollywood couples never really spoke about the people they were dating unless they decided to get married. Their affairs were only spoken about in the monthly film magazines but the advent of the 24X7 media and the news cycle changed all that. Now the news of affairs and break-ups makes headlines and is on digital and social media regularly. We are taking you back to a time in the 90s when a lot of actors dated on another but we may have forgotten about these relationships. Some of these couples may come as a surprise to you, number four definitely shocked us!
Blast from the Past: Celebrity couples you may have forgotten about!
Ajay Devgn - Karisma Kapoor - Raveena Tandon
Ajay Devgn may not have been a chocolate boy hero but he did have the ladies fighting over him. He was first linked with Raveena Tandon followed by Karisma Kapoor. The tabloids of the 90s were full of stories of how the two actresses fought over him. It is said that that he used to date Raveena initially before Karisma came into the picture. Naturally, a hurt Raveena didn’t hold back and went around town telling stories of Ajay’s ‘betrayal’.
Ajay hit back publicly and asked her to visit a shrink for help! Their cold war was one of the hottest topics of gossip back in the day.
In fact, he was once quoted as saying that his relationship with Raveena was purely her imagination. Clarifying his stance on the rumoured love letters he had written to her, he said, “Tell that girl that she should go ahead and publish those letters, even I want to read the figment of her imagination! Our families have known each other for years; she used to come over to our place because she’s a friend of my sister Neelam. When she started behaving badly, we couldn’t throw her out, could we? I was never close to her. Ask her, if I’ve ever called her up or talked to her on my own. She’s just trying to get publicity by linking her name with mine.”
In fact, he allegedly went to the extent of putting the producer of a film Vijaypath, in a spot! Apparently, Ajay asked the producer to hire another actor to star with Raveena as he didn’t want to work with her. He said further, “I was willing to walk out of the film. If the producer chose to replace her and not me, it’s not my fault.” Even though he put up a very professional front, people wondered if Ajay was behind her ouster from Vijaypath.
But is seems like the ladies have since patched up!
Akshay Kumar- Raveena Tandon- Shilpa Shetty triangle
The Akshay Kumar we know today is a very different man from the one we hear stories about from the 90's.
He was not known for being a good actor back then and his choice of roles was also not stellar however he had steady work especially in two-hero projects (with Saif Ali Khan or Sunil Shetty usually) but his runaway hit 'Mohra' in 1994 changed all that. His chemistry with co-star Raveen Tandon was the talk of the town.
However, it was not love at first sight for Akshay and Raveena. In a joint interview in 1997, Akshay confessed, “We started off as friends. We got to know each other only when we went together for a few shows in America and Canada. We didn’t hang out much but when I used to go for an early morning jog, she would appear at the very end when I was finishing my routine.”
Raveena was quoted as saying, “Actually, we got friendly during the American shows. Rumours of our relationship had started then but they weren’t true. We officially started dating after we did a show in Amritsar around February 1995.”
Once when Raveena was talking to her friend, designer Rocky S over the phone she could hear Akshay’s voice in the background. In the middle of her conversation with Rocky, Akshay apparently grabbed the phone and asked her if she could meet him that evening at a suburban restaurant. Reportedly, the actor picked up Raveena from the restaurant and the two drove to her brother’s farmhouse in Karjat (outskirts of Mumbai) and that was the night they finally confessed their deep feelings for each other.
Soon it was evident that Akshay and Raveena were madly in love. They would have their share of fights but they didn’t last for more than 15 minutes. In an interview Raveena once said, “Earlier, I used to make up when we fought but nowadays it’s Akshay who makes up. At least such has been the case for a year.”
The two were ready to take this relationship to the next level but Akshay had a condition.
It was well known that Akki preferred that his wife be a stay-at-home mum. It was a difficult thing to do for any ambitious glamorous girl at the peak of her career but Raveena was willing to make the sacrifice for the man she loved.
The two even got secretly engaged and Akshay had promised that they would marry when all of Raveena’s pending projects were completed. This was not the forst time he had asked an actress to do this - his 'Khiladi' co-star Ayesha Jhulka was also promised marriage in a similar manner.
However, despite being engaged there were stories of Akshay’s fling with Rekha during the making of 'Khatron ke Khiladi'. Raveena, who was already dealing with Akki’s flamboyant nature could not take this anymore. “I think loyalty meant a lot to me but it did not mean so much to him. He expected me to forgive and take him back every time. I did that for three years, until it was the last round,” Raveena said in an interview.
Apparently, Raveena would get irritated when Rekha would allegedly insist that Akshay share her home-made food and that he spend time with her. In an interview to Cine Blitz Raveena said, “I think Raju (Akshay) knows where to draw the line. If this actress knows that we are together yet gets too close to Akshay, I will get my claws into her. But Akshay knows how to handle the situation I guess.”
Meanwhile, Akshay was reportedly also seeing Shilpa Shetty on the sly. Reports said he also started getting close to Shilpa Shetty around the time when they were shooting in Switzerland. Shilpa, who thought he was going through a bad time in his relationship with Raveena, apparently fell for his charms. Needless to say, it wasn’t long before Raveena finally pulled the plug on the relationship. Akshay then started dating Shilpa and led her down the same path as Raveena and eventually married one of Shilpa's friends Twinkle Khanna.
In an interview in July 1999, a heartbroken Raveena said that Akshay proposed to every girl and at the speed he was going he would soon have to address the parents of more than half the girls in Mumbai as ‘mum and dad’. Raveena further said that she didn’t blame any other woman for the break-up since it was her man who was not loyal.
Akshay Kumar was rumoured to be involved with several co-stars.
Pooja Batra: They had an intense relationship but broke up with Raveena entered the picture.
Shilpa Shetty: He dated Shilpa for a long time after Raveena and he broke up. They were even rumoured to be engaged.
Priyanka Chopra: After marriage to Twinkle, his biggest link-up was with Priyanka during the making of Aitraaz. But they never worked together after Twinkle reportedly put her foot down.
Ranveer Singh and Ahana Deol dated while the two were in college and before Ranveer was famous. After teh two broke up she then dated Aditya Roy Kapoor. All of them have since moved on and are busy in their own lives. Ahana is now married to and has a child with a Delhi-based businessman Vaibhav Vohra. Ranveer is in a relationship with Deepika Padukone.
Nana Patekar and Manisha Koirala
Manisha has been away from the limelight for a while but at one time she was notoriously famous for her romantic liaisons. According to reports, she dated actors, restaurateurs, entrepreneurs and diplomats, old and young alike.
But her relationship with Nana Patekar was one of the more prominent ones.
Just out of her relationship with Vivek Mushran, her first co-star, from the movie 'Saudagar', Manisha met Nana on the sets of 'Agnisakshi'. They started secretly dating during the making of the movie but since they were spending so much time together it did not take too much time for the tongues to start wagging. Even her neighbours happily told anyone who asked that Nana was spotted leaving her house in the wee hours of the morning regularly.
They played father and daughter in Sanjay Leela Bhasali's Khamoshi which was a massive hit and their performances were critically acclaimed. However, the media was more interested in their off-screen romance. Even though Nana was married, his wife wasn't living with him.
Problems arose when the two strong personalities clashed. According to reports, Nana was extremely possessive and would object if she wore revealing outfits or got intimate with her co-stars. During the making of Yugpurush, Nana had a huge showdown with Manisha as he didn't approve of certain outfits that she was wearing. These fights led to the demise of that relationship. However, the nail in the coffin came when Manisha reportedly found Nana and Ayesha Jhulka in an embrace in a closed room.
Ranbir Kapoor - Avantika
Ranbir Kapoor and his Casanova instincts are not hidden from the world. The actor was a philanderer ever since his adolescence and very few people know that his first crush was actor Imran Khan’s wife Avantika Malik.
Avantika used to work as a child artist in a popular serial Just Mohabbat. Ranbir was so much in love with Avantika that he used to visit her every day on the sets of Just Mohabbat.
But as it was destined, they parted ways and Avantika tied the knot with Imran.
Govinda and Rani Mukherjee
They had done multiple films together and very involved in each other's life. It was said that they were also living together in her Versova flat. Apparently, it was then that Govinda’s wife Sunita allegedly packed her bags and moved out of their Juhu bungalow Jal Darshan with their two children.
According to sources, it was love at first sight. Gregarious and fun-loving, the couple had such a blast shooting in the US that it was even rumoured that they’d got married at a temple there.
However, Govinda's two children and his conservative upbringing is said to have drawn him back to his family and made him end the relationship.
Shahid Kapoor - Vidya Balan/ Shahid - Priyanka Chopra
Shahid and Vidya apparently started dating during the making of Kismet Konnection and continued seeing each other for a while. However, they did not talk about each other publicly. Except after the break-up Vidya mentioned in an interview that she walked away from the relationship because she was constantly criticised. Vidya said "If someone who matters to you talks you down, it can break you. That someone whose approval mattered to me started to constantly find faults with me. It started reflecting on me. At that point of time, it was important to walk away from that relationship. I don't want to take his name."
After this break up Shahid hooked up with Priyanka Chopra during the making of Kaminey. He was even found at her house in the wee hours of the morning by Income Tax officers who had come to raid Priyanka's house. However, the relationship soon fizzled out because the nature of the two people involved was very different.
They are as different as chalk and cheese. While Shahid is a very protective and private person as far as his relationships go, Priyanka is outgoing and casual.
Deepika Padukone and Yuvraj Singh
Deepika Padukone’s rumoured romance with cricketer Yuvraj Singh ended before she became a famous movie star. The two were reportedly dating before Deepika's ‘Om Shanti Om’ was released. According to reports, the reason for the split is Yuvraj’s possessive attitude. Deepika was reportedly very serious about Yuvraj and the two were in love.
However, after the success of Om Shanti Om, Deepika got busy and could not give Yuvi as much time. She got busy meeting producers and signing films. This angered Yuvi who felt neglected.
Yuvi was also extremely controlling and possessive about Deepika and even gave her instructions on what to wear and with whom to party.
Before Deepika left for Australia with Ranbir Kapoor for a Yash Raj film, they had a huge showdown. She told him to back off while he warned her not to get too close to Ranbir.
Sources say Deepika would avoid Yuvi’s calls while in Australia and that’s when he realised their relationship was over.
Bipasha Basu - Rana Daggubati
Bipasha has dated a lot of handsome men from Dino Morea to John Abraham, even Harman Baweja and the 'Bhalladeva' Rana Daggubati. Bipasha and the 'Baahubali' star dated in 2011 when the two worked together for the movie 'Dum Maro Dum' but the realtionship did not last for very long.
Aamir Khan and Pooja Bhatt
Reports suggest that the two actors had a torrid affairs on the sets of ‘Dil hai ki Manta Nahin’ but it was soon over and they moved on. Aamir also reportedly had an affair with Mamta Kulkarni during the making of ‘Baazi’.
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