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1. Actor Irrfan Khan is married to Sutapa Sikdar, an Assamese Hindu. They have two sons, Babil and Ayaan.
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2. Legendary bollywood actress Rekha has four sisters. One of them,Radha Ganeshan is married to Mr Usman Syed and is settled in USA.
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3. Scriptwriter Anjum Rajabally (Ghulam and Drohkaal) is married toChetna, daughter of noted cricket writer Late KN Prabhu.
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4. Artist-journalist Bina Sarkar is married to photographer- film directorRafique Elias. Their son is Raoul, while their daughter Yuki Elias is a theatre actor is Mumbai who has acted in a film called Love You To Death (directed by her father).
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5. Music Director Anu (Anwar) Malik is married to Anju. They have two daughters, one of whom is named Anmol.
His elder brother Daboo Malik is married to Jyoti and has two sons, Amal and Arman.
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6. Famous bollywood cabaret dancer of 80s, Leena Das married singer Mohammed Rafis son, Shahid. They have two sons.
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7. Shahnawaz Bhutto, grandfather of Benazir Bhutto, married a Hindu woman who converted to Islam.
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8. Actor Zayed Khan recently married school friend Malaika Parekh, a Hindu. (His sister Suzanne is Hritik Roshans wife. Other sister Simone is also married to a Hindu). They have two sons, Zidaan and Ariz.
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9. Classical vocalist Ali Akbar Khan married numerous times in his life. One of his wives was Rajdulari Devi, a singer herself. Their daughter Aneesa is married to TV producer Rajeev Chaudhary.
Surprisingly, Ali Akbar and his Muslim wife Zubeida gave Hindu names to their sons, namely Ashish, Dhyanesh, Amresh and Pranesh. Out of these,Ashish declared himself to be a Hindu and seperated from his Muslim wifeFiroza Dehalvi. Ashishs children are Faraz (son) and Nusrat (daughter).
Dhayneshs daughter Sahana is married to a Hindu (Mr Gupta). Dhyaneshs son is Shiraz Khan.
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10. Doctor/Model Aditi Govitrikar, a Maharashtrian Brahmin, married Dr Muffazal Lakdawala. They had a daughter, Kiara and a son, Zihaan. Govitrikar participated in and won the Mrs India competition under her post-marriage name, Sarah Muffazal Lakdawala. They are now seperated.Dr Muffazal is now married to Priyanka, daughter of Maj Gen TK Kaul.
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11. Amar Sheikh, firebrand revolutionary Marathi folk singer of the 60s and 70s was married to a Marathi Hindu woman. Their two daughters Mallika and Prerana married dalit activist Namdev Dhasal and Marathi writer Late Anil Barve respectively. Amar Sheikhs contemporary Shahir Jainu Chand (a Muslim) married Kesharbai. The marriage was performed as per Hindu rituals. Their son is Nishant.
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12. VJ and anchor Mini Mathur is married to film director Kabir Khan. They have a son, Vivaan and a daughter, Sairah.
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13. Actor Farooq Sheikhs wife Rupa is a Gujarati Hindu. They have two daughters, Shaista and Sanaa.
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14. Aruna Ganguli, the firebrand Congress leader of Freedom Movement, married Barrister Asaf Ali Zamani and converted to Islam, assuming the name Kulsum Zamani. Her husband was 20 years her senior.
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15. Mira Nair, director of the film Monsoon Wedding is married toProfessor Mahmood Mamdani of Columbia University, a Ugandan Muslim. They have one son, Zohran.
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16. Veteran theatreperson Ebrahim Alkazy is married to Uma. She was originally married to Dev Anands brother Chetan Anand but divorced him.
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17. Actor Saeed Jaffrey married Madhur Bahadur, a Hindu Kayasth from Delhi. They later divorced. They have three daughters, Meera, Zia and Sakina. Of them, Sakina is an actor and is married to an American by the name of Tom Wilkinson. Sakinas children, Cassius and Jamila Wilkinson are actors as well. Madhur Jaffrey has made a name for herself as a celebrity cooking expert with many cook books and shows to her credit.
Saeeds brother Hamid Jaffrey is married to Late Dada Muni Ashok Kumars daughter Bharti (mother of actress Anuradha Patel). This is the second marriage of both and each has three children from their first marriages.
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18. Times of India journalist Ashwin Ahmed has a Hindu mother and a Muslim father. He is also married to a Hindu.
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19. Director Muzaffar Ali married Subhashini Sehgal, daughter of freedom fighter Capt Laxmi Sehgal. They later divorced. Their son Shaad Ali is director of the film Bunty Aur Babli. They are now divorced. Muzaffar is now married to fashion designer Meera Ali. Their daughter is Sama.
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20. Naina Balsawar, an ex- Miss India is married to Ahmad Dumpy, a Congress politician. She has been an MP herself. This is her second marriage. She has two daughters (Rivan and Rivka) from her first marriage, and a son, Azaan and a daughter, Aleah from Dumpy.
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21.Suhaib Ilyasi, the anchor of TV crime show Indias Most Wanted had a love marriage with Anju Singh, a Hindu girl. They had a daughter, Aliya. Anju died under mysterious circumstances.
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22. Imtiaz Ali, director of the film Jab We Met is married to Priti. Their daughter is Ida.
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23. Tamil film actress Karuthama Rajshree married Ansari Raja, a Muslim fitness trainer working in the Tamil film industry. However, the couple got divorced in just a month. Rajshree is now married to a Hindu.
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24. Renowned Kathak dancer Sitara Devi married director K Asif (Mughal E Azam). But they were divorced soon. Then she married Pratap Barot and divorced him too.
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25. Singer Sunidhi Chauhan, at the age of 18, eloped and married Bobby Khan, brother of choreographer Ahmed Khan. Her family never acknowledged the marriage and threatened to disown her. The couple fell apart in a year and she returned to her parents. She is now married to a Hindu.
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26. Late Sitar player Vilayat Khan was married to Bengali Brahmin,Monisha. They got divorced. Their son, Sitar player Shujaat is a Muslim. He is married to a Muslim named Parveen and his son is Azaan.
His daughter Zila (sufi singer) is married to a Muslim while the other daughter Yaman married a Hindu Rajput (now divorced). Vilayat Khans second wife, was a Christian. From her. he had one son, Hidayat.
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27. TV and film actor Simone Singh is married to TV producer Farhad Samar. They have no kids.
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28. Classical singer Rashid Khan is married to Joyeeta Bose, a Bengali Hindu. They have one son.
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29. Dr. Sharik Currimbhoy, vice-president & chief operating officer of the Shahnaz Husain Group of Companies is married to Samara Chopra, a TV anchor and daughter of Ashwini Chopra, a Delhi-based physician.
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30. Theatre Veteran Habib Tanvir was married to Monika Mishra, also an actor. Both are no more. Their daughter Nageen is an actor too.
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31. Director Aziz Mirza (films Yes Boss and Phir Bhi Dil Hai Hindustani) was married to a Hindu called Nirmala. She died in 2005. Their daughter is Rahila.
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32. Pandit Jawahar Lal Nehrus niece, Janak Kumari, married Jalil Asghar, a civil servant of pre-independence India. Asghar family migrated to Pakistan after partition where Jalil rose to become the Defence Secretary of Pakistan. Janak Kumari took up social service in Lahore and was awarded Sitara E Khidmat by President Ayub Khan. However, after Jalils death, she faced financial difficulties and litigation over property fromJalils family. She died in 1997. No one from Nehru family attended her funeral. She did not convert and remained a Hindu to her last day. They had no children.
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33. Actor-director Farhan Akhtars first wife was Riya Jain. They are now divorced. He is now married to Adhuna Bhabani, a Bengali Hindu. They have two daughters, Shakya and Akira and a son, Kalyan.
Javed Akhtars brother Salman is married to Monisha Nair. They both are psychologists based in UK.
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34. TV actor and anchor Husain Kuwajerwala (Anchor of Indian Idol) is married to Tina Darera.
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35. Renowned danseuse and ex " Miss India Indrani Banerjee married an Architect called Habib Rahman. Their children are Ram and Sukanya. Indrani herself was child of an inter-religious marriage. She was the first ever Indian representative to Miss Universe in 1952.Ram Rahman is a famous photographer. Sukanya is a renowned danseuse and author of the book Dancing In The Family. She is married to Frank Wicks. Habib died in 1995 while Indrani passed away in 1999.
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36. Senior film and TV actor Yusuf Hussain (small roles in Khakee,Dhoom etc) married three times. His third wife (now divorced) isKanchan Duggal.
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37. Late Asif Currimbhoy was a well-known actor of Mumbais English stage. His son Tarik is married to Nayana. They are both interior designers settled in USA. They have a daughter, Sana. Asifs daughter Nahid is married to Amit Moitra. Amit-Nahid have 2 daughters, Tehzeeb and Tahini.
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38. Popular TV actor Iqbal Khan (of Kavyanjali fame) is married to Sneha Chhabra. Their daughter is Amaara.
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39. Latika, Daughter of Sheila Dixit, present Chief Minister of Delhi, is married to Mr Syed, a Muslim.
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40. The household of Screen writer Salim Khan (of the Salim-Javed duo) is a virtual congregation of religions. He married Susheela, a Maharashtrian Hindu woman. Their children are actors Salman, Arbaaz and Sohail and a daughter named Alvira.
Arbaaz Khan married Malaika Arora (a Roman Catholic). They have a son named Arhan.
Actor Sohail Khan married Seema Sachdev, a Hindu. Their son is named Nirvaan.
Alvira is married to actor Atul Agnihotri, a Hindu. They have a daughter, Alizeb and a son, Ayaan.
Salims second wife is Helen, an Anglo-Indian Jew. They have an adopted Hindu daughter, Arpita.
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41. Businesswoman Naina Lal Kidwai, Vice Chairman, HSBC is married toRasheed Kidwai who runs an NGO. They have two children.
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42. Late actor Divya Bharti was secretly married to film producer Sajid Nadiadwala. This marriage was never acknowledged during the actor lifetime for the fear that it will impact her career. Sajid Nadiadwalas films carry a dedication to my beloved wife Divya Bharti. He is now married to Warda Khan, a Muslim.
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43. CNN IBN anchorperson Suhasini Haidar daughter of politician Subramaniam Swamy, is married to Nadeem, son of former India bureaucrat Salman Haidar. They have two daughters.
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44. Aamir Khan maried Reena Dutta but they are now divorced. They had a son, Junaid and a daughter, Ira. Custody of the kids is with Reena. Aamiris now married to Kiran Rao. They have a son, Azad.
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45. Bharatiya Janata Partys Muslim faces, Late Sikander Bakht (married to Raj Sharma), Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi (married to Seema) and Syed Shahnawaz Husain (married to Renu Sharma) all married Hindu women.
Syed Shahnawaz Hussain has two sons, one of whom is named Adeeb and is a Muslim.
Mukhtar Abbas Naqvis son Arshad is married to Sumana, a Hindu.
Late Sikandar Bakhts sons are Anil and Sunil Bakht.
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45. Actor Reena Roy had married Pakistan Cricketer Mohsin Khan who also acted in a few Bollywood films. They are now divorced. They have one daughter, Sanam, whose custody is with Reena. Reena Roys father was Hindu and mother Muslim.
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46. Sarod Player Amjad Ali Khan married Subhalaxmi, an Assamese Hindu. Their twin sons Ayaan Ali and Amaan Ali are also Sarod players and frequently appear on TV. Ayaan recently got married to Neema, daughter of Romesh Sharma, producer of Big B film Hum. In the film, Romesh also did a small role of Kimi Katkars brother who gets killed.
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47. TV actor Jasvir Kaur is married to Aziz.
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48. USA based Indian-origin photographer Nisha Kutty is married to Al-Khadir Rahman, an African Muslim. Their daughter is Surya.
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49. Sulbha Arya (Kantaben of Kal Ho Na Ho), a Maharashtrian Hindu, married cinematographer Ishan Arya (Garam Hawa, Anjuman), a relation of Kaifi Azmi. The surname Arya was adopted by them after their marriage in an Arya Samaj Mandir. Ishan is no more. Their sons are cinematographer Sameer Arya (Koi Mil Gaya, Drona) and actor Sagar Arya (who played Mahesh in Love Aaj Kal). Sameer is married to Srishti Arya,TV actress, producer of Abhishek Bachchan film Drona and daughter of Late director Ramesh Behl (Kasme Vaade).
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50. Actor Arif Zakaria, known for his roles on TV and in art films, is married to journalist Namrata Sharma. They have a son.
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51. Indias most famous radio anchor Ameen Sayani married Rama, a Kashmiri Pandit. Their son, Rajil is married to Krishna.
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52. Actor Naseeruddin Shah is married to actor Ratna Pathak. They have a son, Imaad and a daughter, Heba. Both are actors.
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53. Wipro tycoon Azim Premjis son Rishad got married to a Hindu girl,Aditi in 2005. They have two children, Rhea (daughter) and Rohan (son).
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54. Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi married Sharmila Tagore. She converted to Islam before marriage. Their children are actrors Saif and Soha and another daughter Sabah who lives in Bhopal. Saif Ali Khan married Amrita Singh, who herself was daughter of a Sikh father and a Muslim mother.Saif " Amrita who are now divorced, have two children, Sara and Ibrahim.Saif is now married to actor Kareena Kapoor, another Hindu. She has chosen to remain a Hindu.
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55. Journalist and former Indian National basketball team player Javed Akhtar was married to Nayantara. He is no more.
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56. Music director Ismail Darbar (Devdas, Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam) is married to Priti Sinha (Ayesha after marriage).
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57. Indian journalist Talveen Singh was married to Pakistani diplomatSalman Taseer. They got divorced. Salman Taseer was murdered by his own bodyguard in Pakistan. Their son, Atish Taseer Singh lives with his mother. He is the author of the book A Journey through Islamic Lands.
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58. Legendary actress Meena Kumari (Mahjabeen Bano) was daughter ofAllah Bux and Prabhavati Devi (Iqbal Begum after conversion to Islam). Her mother, Prabhavati herself was daughter of a Christian father and a Hindu mother. Meena Kumaris sister Mehelka (Madhuri after marriage) married Kishore Sharma.
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59. Farhad Nathani, smalltime producer and a supporting actor who acted in Kaho Na Pyar Hai is married to Radha Patkar, a Maharashtrian Hindu.
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60. Booker-winner writer Salman Rushdies third marriage was to model-actress Padma Lakshmi. It too, ended in a divorce.
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61. Ghazal Singer Talat Aziz is married to Bina Adwani, a Sindhi Hindu. They have two sons, Adnan and Shayaan.
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62. Gyanpeeth awardee writer Amrita Pritam had a 40-year long romantic relationship with Pakistani Muslim artist Imroz. They never married.
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63. Actor Shahrukh Khan married Gauri Chibber. They have a son, Aryan and a daughter, Suhana.
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64. Corporate personality Anvar Alikhan is married to Indrani Das.
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65. Advertising Guru Alayque Padamsee was married three times. First to Pearl Padamsee ( a Jew), then to Dolly Thakore (a Hindu) and later to Pop Singer Sharon Prabhakar (a Hindu). He is now divorced and single. Though a Khoja Muslim by birth, he claims to be an agnostic. Pearl, was best known for her Agony Aunt column in Femina and her role in Amol Palekar film Choti Si Baat.. She is no more. Sharon Prabhakar is daughter of a Hindu Punjabi father and a Christian mother. Alayque and Sharons daughter, Shazahn has acted in films like Rocket Singh and Houseful 2.
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66. Indian Cowboy Feroze Khan married Sundari. She is the sister of actor Sonia Sahani who played Rishi Kapurs mother in Bobby. They got divorced in 1985. Their children, Fardeen and Laila both married Hindus.
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67. Late Safdar Hashmi, the street theatre activist who was killed by goons, was married to Moloyshree. Hashmi was cremated in an electric crematorium as per his last wish, instead of being buried in Islamic fashion.
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68. Sangeeta Bijalni is married to Cricketor Mohammed Azaruddin. Her post-marriage name is Ayesha.
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69. Pop singer Parvati Khan is married to Nadeem, son of writer Rahi Masoom Raza. Their son is Jatin.
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70. Theatre personality Aamir Raza Hussain (best known for his play The Legend of Ram) is married to Viraat Talwar. They have a daughter, Kaniz and a son, Ghulam Ali.
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71. Music director Khayyam is married to a Sikh woman by the name of Jagjit Kaur. His sons name is Pradeep. Pradeep acted in a film called Jaan E Wafa in 1990 with Farooq Sheikh and Rati Agnihotri but his career failed to take off.
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72. Actor Ayub Khan (Preity Zintas boyfriend in Dil Chahta Hai, son ofactress Begum Paraand actor Nasir Khan-Dilip Kumars brother) marriedNiharika, a Gujarati Hindu. Their two daughters are Zohra and Zaira. This is second marriage for both Ayub and Niharika.
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73. Corporate personality Amita Baig is married to Khalid, an engineering consultant.
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74. Actress Tanvi Kiran, is married to Shabana Azmis brother, Cinematographer Baba Azmi. They have a daughter.
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75. Kenan Malik, UK-based Indian author of From Fatwa to Jehad, is son of a Muslim father and a Tamil Hindu mother.
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76. Actress Dia Mirzas mother, Deepa was Bengali Hindu and father, a German (Christian). They divorced and her mother remarried a Muslim,Ahmed Mirza when Dia was a child. He died in 2002. Dia chose to retain the surname Mirza, though she is not a Muslim.
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77. Liquor Tycoon Vijay Mallaya is married to Rekha. This is the second marriage for both of them. Rekha was previously married to Mr Mahmoodand had a daughter, Laila. Vijay and Rekha have adopted Laila and she is now called Laila Mallaya.
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78. Veteran actor Lalita Chatterjee (now Ahmed) is a Hindu married to a Muslim. She was seen in films such as Bhaji On The Beach and Brick Lane and also played a small part in Love Aaj Kal. Her daughter Samira Ahmed is a well-known TV journalist of UK who is married to Brian, a Christian.
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79. Actor Shafi Inamdar who rose to fame with DD serial Yeh Jo Hai Zindagi and later acted in numerous Hindi films (most notably as the turncoat lawyer in Ghayal), married Marathi stage actress Bhakti Barve. She is best known for her role as the editor in Jaane bhi Do Yaaro. Shafi died of a heart attack in 1996. Bhakti died in a road accident on Mumbai-Pune expressway in 2001. They had no children.
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80. National Badminton players Syed Modi and Amita Kulkarni married each other. Syed was murdered in 1988 for unexplained motives. Amita later married politician Sanjay Singh.
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81. Late actor Amjad Khans brother Imtiaz , himself an actor and director, was married to actress Anju Mahendroo (Rajesh Khannas ex-girlfriend). They got divorced and had no children. Now Imtiaz is married to TV Actress Kruttika Desai (famous for her role in DD serial Buniyaad) who is 20 years his junior. They have a daughter. Imtiaz directed a B-grade film called Husn " Love And Betrayal in 2008.
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82. Legendary singer Talat Mahmoods son Khalid is married to Reena Pande. Talat Mahmoods wife, Latika was a Christian.
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83. Kabir Bedis daughter, actress Pooja Bedi was married to Farhan Furniturewalla. They are now divorced. They have two children, Aliya and Omar.
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