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Vidhu Vinod Chopra is a well-known producer and director of Bollywood having produced and even directed some of the big hits over the years. His last directorial 12th Fail with Vikrant Massey was a sleeper hit and garnered lot of good reviews and box-office success. While most of the Bollywood fans are aware of the Bollywood journey of Vidhu Vinod Chopra very few really know that he has been married thrice and his current wife-Anupama Chopra is his third wife.
Vidhu Vinod Chopra was married twice before marrying Anupama
During one of his earlier interviews the famous director opened up about his personal life. He revealed marrying Renu Saluja at the age of 19 years when they were in FTII. He even accepted being romantic at heart and having many affairs when young growing up in Kashmir. He used to go to yoga classes with Renu and many considered her his elder sister.
The two parted ways after 5 to 6 years of marriage because Renu did not want to have kids. He later on went on to marry a short story filmmaker Shabnam Sukhdev. But the marriage did not work out and soon both of them divorced.
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Vidhu Vinod Chopra recalls making Kareeb for Anupama
His third marriage with Anupama Chopra has worked well. The two share a strong bonding and right from the beginning the pair were very much in love with each other. Talking about his initial days with Anupama, the 1942: A Love Story director once said, “Kareeb I made for her. I made her kind of movie. I was so much in love with her that I made Kareeb for her. That girl (female lead in Kareeb) was her, the giggling mother was her mother.”
“I got jacked because it wasn’t my kind of movie at all. It was the most expensive love letter ever written,” he added. The director even admitted that he was a very violent man earlier but Anupama changed him a lot and now he is a much better person.
