13 Women Proved That Marriage Cannot Prevent Them From Starting A Career In Bollywood

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Here is a list of female actors who entered the industry after getting married, and not just made a mark for themselves, but also won our hearts.

#1 Chitrangada Singh

Chitrangada Singh married Jyoti Singh Randhawa in the year 2001 and made her debut with the movie Hazaaron Khwaishein Aisi in 2003. The couple separated in 2013 and got divorced in 2014. They have a son named Zorawar whose custody has been granted to Chitrangada.

#2 Rakhee Gulzar

Rakhee Gulzar married Ajay Biswas in 1963. She made her first film appearance in 1967 in a Bengali movie Badhu Baran. The couple got divorced in 1965. Rakhee then married film director, poet and lyricist Gulzar in 1973 and the couple has a daughter, Meghna Gulzar.

#3 Vidya Malvade

Vidya Malvade started her career in 2003 with the movie Inteha. She was married to Late Capt. Arvind Singh Bagga in 1997, who died in 2000 in a plane crash. She then married Sanjay Dayma in 2009.

#4 Moushumi Chatterjee

Moushumi Chatterjee married Jayant Mukherjee. It is after her marriage that she started to act in Bollywood movies. At that time, it was quite unusual for Indian women to take up acting.

#5 Suchitra Sen

The first Indian female actor to win an award at an international film festival, Suchitra Sen married Dibanath Sen in 1947. She made her debut with Shesh Kothaay in 1952.
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#6 Dimple Kapadia

Dimple Kapadia married actor Rajesh Khanna. Her first film Bobby released in 1973, six months after her marriage. It is believed that Rajesh Khanna “banned” her from acting.

#7 Aditi Rao Hydari

Aditi Rao Hydari married Satyadeep Mishra in 2007. It is said that she kept the marriage a secret and made her debut in 2007 with a Tamil film Sringaram.

#8 Zeba Bakhtiar

Zeba Bakhtiar married singer Adnan Sami in 1993 but they divorced in 1997. The couple has a son named Azaan. She made her big screen debut with the movie Henna in 1991 which brought her into the limelight.