The 'Other Women' of Bollywood

When steady relationships go awry, it is mostly due to the involvement of a third person i.e. the 'other woman', especially in Bollywood.

There have been innumerable instances when one individual strays from a rock solid relationship. Men in particular, find it hard to keep maintain their fidelity, which becomes twofold when it is a hot Bollywood actress on the other side. Here are some of the 'other women' of Bollywood.

Katrina Kaif

Katrina Kaif apparently got cosy with Ranbir Kapoor on the sets of their film while Ranbir was still very much with Deepika Padukone. Deepika kept no secrets about Ranbir's wayward ways and after Katrina's break-up with Salman Khan, the Ranbir-Kat romance was pretty much confirmed.

Priyanka Chopra

Priyanka Chopra reportedly evoked the wrath of Twinkle Khanna owing to her alleged affair with Akshay Kumar. Twinkle was so miffed with Priyanka that she banned her husband from signing any other films with her. The pair hasn't worked with each other since.

Kareena Kapoor

Kareena Kapoor is currently dating Saif Ali Khan. Khan married actress Amrita Singh in October 1991.After thirteen years of marriage and two children (son Ibrahim Ali Khan and daughter Sara Ali Khan), the couple divorced in 2004. 

Shilpa Shetty

Shilpa Shetty was blatantly charged by Raj Kundra's ex wife for breaking her home. The ex-Mrs Kundra alleged that he was so besotted with Shilpa that their reconciliation became impossible. Shilpa, however denied being a home-breaker and that Raj was already divorced when she started dating him. Controversies apart, the couple are now happily married.

Kiran Rao

Aamir Khan reportedly started seeing Kiran Rao in 2001, on the sets of 'Lagaan', where Kiran was an assistant director. Technically speaking Aamir was still married to Reena Dutta at that time and they got divorced only next year. Aamir got married to Kiran three years later and are going pretty strong till date.

Rani Mukherji

Rani Mukherji has been linked to Aditya Chopra since a very long time now. Aditya Chopra divorced his wife Payal Chopra after seven years of marriage with industry insiders blaming the 'other woman' for the breakdown of their marriage. Rumours about the two getting married have been doing the rounds time and again, but both Rani and Aditya have maintained a dignified silence regarding the whole 'affair'.

Lara Dutta

After a long silence, mahesh Bhupathi's ex-wife, Shvetha Jaishankar, claimed that the relationship between Lara and Mahesh started while he was still married to her. She slammed Mahesh for treating her like a trophy wife and even said that Lara would fit in with his "ambitious streak".

Preity Zinta

Shekhar Kapur's ex-wife, Suchitra Krishnamoorthy shocked everyone when she cited Preity as the cause of her divorce from Shekhar Kapur. She even wrote a poem titled 'Maneater' directing it towards Preity which raked up a major controversy.

Rekha

Their's was the most celebrated romance on-screen. Off-screen too, the two reportedly had a torrid affair, very much on the lines of 'Silsila', which Yash Chopra termed as "real life coming into reel life". Amitabh apparently set his priorities right and returned home to wife Jaya Bachchan leaving the world in fancy of the short-lived but amazingly mysterious love story.

Madhubala

Legendary actress Madhubala was also seeing Kishore Kumar, whom she eventually married, when he was still married to Ruma Guha Thakurta.

Hema Malini

Dharmendra had to convert to Islam so that he could marry Hema Malini, while remaining married to Prakash Kaur

Sridevi

Sridevi has had the tag of 'the other woman' applied to her more than once. Firstly, she started dating Mithun Chakrabarty even though he was still married to Yogita Bali. It is said that when Sridevi found out that he had not divorced Bali, she got the marriage annulled. Later, she married producer Boney Kapoor while he was still married to his first wife Mona Shourie Kapoor. Strangely enough, Mona continued to live in Boney Kapoor's house for ten years after him and Sridevi tied the knot.

Karisma Kapoor

Karisma was engaged to Abhishek Bachchan. The engagement was announced in October 2002 on the 60th birthday of Abhishek's father, Amitabh Bachchan. Four months later in February 2003, they split up.[12] On 29 September 2003, she married industrialist Sanjay Kapur, CEO of Sixt India.Karisma married Sanjay while he was getting a divorce from his first wife Nandita.