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In the 1990s, Akshay Kumar and Twinkle Khanna, who would later become husband and wife, first met while working together on a film set. After their marriage in 2001, she did not pursue any further acting roles. Twinkle later revealed that she had never aspired to be an actor, unlike her parents, the late Rajesh Khanna and veteran actress Dimple Kapadia, and therefore did not feel a sense of loss regarding her acting career after her final film, Dharmesh Darshan’s Mela in 2000, which also starred Aamir Khan.

Akshay recalled, “When her film with Aamir Khan sahab, Mela, was about to release, we were having an affair. So I asked her, ‘Let’s get married?’ But she didn’t want to marry. So, she said she’d marry only if Mela doesn’t work. Everyone believed that Mela would work wonders because it’s an Aamir Khan film, with Dharmesh Darshan as the director.”

However, as fate would have it, Mela did not perform well at the box office. Akshay jokingly said on Aap Ki Adalat, “Sorry Aamir Khan sahab, that film of yours didn’t work. But I got married because of you.” He revealed that they were filming separately until 6 p.m on their wedding day. After the wrap-up, they exchanged vows in a private ceremony on the terrace of a friend’s home.

At the recent trailer launch of her upcoming chat show, Two Much With Kajol & Twinkle, Twinkle Khanna shared that Akshay Kumar uses a specific codeword whenever he wants her to be silent, which is “chashma pehen lo (wear your glasses).” Akshay said on Aap Ki Adalat, “My wife has no filter. She speaks her mind. When we were newly married, I took her to a trial show of my film. When the producer asked her, ‘Bhabhiji, kaisi lagi aapko film? (How did you like the film)’, she said, ‘It’s a sh*t movie.’ I thought this man would never cast me again.” When he tried explaining Twinkle to be more diplomatic in her approach, she said, “No, I am like this. I’ll call a spade a spade.”