They have one of Bollywood's most complex marriages, but then, the Rajesh and Dimple relationship was always unusual. He was a 31-year-old superstar who had just split with his longtime girlfriend Anju Mahendru; she was a bedazzled 16-year-old newcomer whose first film had not even released.

Bobby hit theatres when Dimple was already heavily pregnant with her elder daughter Twinkle. The film proved to be a sensational success and made Dimple a nationwide craze, but she didn't do another film and instead retreated into domesticity.

Swings of fortune rocked the Khanna marriage and the couple finally separated in the early 1980s, and Dimple returned to Bollywood. But the couple remained amicable and Dimple even agreed to act in Rajesh Khanna's production Jai Shiv Shankar.

Today, there seems to be little rancour between this mature couple, whose association has settled into a comfortable groove.

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