Personal Life
In the late 1960s and early 1970s, Khanna fell in love with the then fashion designer and actress Anju Mahendru. They were in a relationship for seven years. Mahendru states that the couple did not speak to each other for 17 years after the break-up. Later Khanna married the budding actress Dimple Kapadia in March 1973, before Kapadia's debut film Bobby released in November of that year. They have two daughters from the marriage; Twinkle and Rinke. Khanna and Kapadia separated in 1984 but did not complete the divorce proceedings. In the eighties Tina Munim was romantically involved with Khanna till the time she decided to leave the industry to pursue her higher studies. Khanna and Kapadia however maintained an amicable relationship where they both were seen together at parties and family functions together from 1990–2012. Kapadia also campaigned for Khanna's election and worked in his film Jai Shiv Shankar (1990).
Khanna's elder daughter Twinkle Khanna, an interior decorator and a former film actress, is married to actor Akshay Kumar while his younger daughter Rinke Khanna, also a former Hindi film actress, is married to a London-based investment banker Samir Saran. On 17 July 2012, a woman named Anita Advani claimed herself to be a live-in partner of Khanna sent a legal notice to his family members asking for compensation. However on 9 August 2012 his family sent reply that Anita Advani's claims were all untrue and that she was not his live-in partner.
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