This is the high time when we all should understand that love is the greatest and purest religion and nothing is above it. Love is such a pure feeling that it doesn’t know any boundary and religion is definitely not a boundary that love can not cross. The concept of interfaith marriage is not just limited to the movies and advertisements but it also has made many political and religious powers knee down in real life too. In the showbiz world of Bollywood, there is often seen that many actors, tied the knot with the love of their life despite facing the big challenge of belonging to different religious backgrounds. Here is a list of Top 10 Bollywood couples who did interfaith marriage and proved love has no boundaries:
1. Shah Rukh Khan & Gauri Chibber: Shah Rukh and Gauri are some of the most loved and celebrated couples of the industry who has been treating us with couple goals since the start. The tied knot in 1991, despite of their different religion. SRK fell in love with Gauri who comes from a Hindu Brahmin family and did everything to make her his.
2. Saif Ali Khan and Kareena Kapoor Khan: The couple made many headlines when they made their relationship public. The couple fall in love during the shoot of Tashan and got married in 2012. While Saif is a Nawab, Kareena hailed to a hardcore Punjabi still they make an absolute loving couple.
3. Aamir Khan and Kiran Rao: The couple who got divorced earlier this year, tied the knot back in 2005. Aamir faced a lot of backlashes when he got married to Kiran, who belongs to the Royal family of J Rameshwar Rao who was the Raja of Wanaparthy, Mahbubnagar district in Telangana.
4. Naseeruddin Shah and Ratna Pathak: Naseeruddin met Ratna in the year 1975 during the production of Satyadev Dubey’s play, Sambhog Se Sanyas Tak, after he got divorced to his first wife. Despite their religious difference, the couple got married in 1982 and have been happily married since then.
5. Ritiesh Deshmukh and Genelia D’Souza: after secretly dating each other for more than a decade, Ritiesh a Hindu, and Genelia a Christian tied the knot in 2012. They paid respect to their religions and had both a traditional Hindu Marathi wedding and a beautiful Christian ceremony in the church.
6. Soha Ali Khan & Kunal Khemu: The actors tied the knot in 2015 in a private ceremony that was only attended by close family members and friends. The couple has a three-year-old daughter, Inaaya.
7. Irrfan Khan & Sutapa Sikdar: The late Muslim actor tied the knot with his Assamese Hindu wife in 1995. The two were classmates at the National School of Drama and fell in love. They have two sons together, Babil Khan and Ayaan Khan.
8. Sunil Dutt & Nargis: The love story of a charming man and gorgeous actress is one of the most dreamy stories of the industry which we are retold a thousand times. The love at first sight at the set of Mother India== was followed by a beautiful romance and the two tied the knot in a secret ceremony in 1958, not making it public for almost a year.
9. Priyanka Chopra & Nick Jonas: Their whirlwind romance took the world by a storm. The two met at the Vanity Fair Oscars party, after texting for months and Nick immediately went down on one knee and asked her where she'd been all his life. Then they attended the 2017 Met Gala together and a year and a half later, Nick proposed.’
10. Preity Zinta & Gene Goodenough: The actor and her American husband tied the knot in a Hindu ceremony in 2016. The two met in Los Angeles and dated for five years before they decided to get married. They held a reception in Mumbai post the wedding, to celebrate their special day with Bollywood biggies.
