✱ COVER STORY POWER COUPLESIt’s the month of February and Valentines Day sprinkles stardust around, love is in the air and cupid is ready to strike her darts at love-laced hearts. 44 Issue 6 ✱ Febryary 2010 Bollywood Lifestyle Magazine t’s the power of love that has kept this world together and it is the glue that will keep it going strong forever. You must have also seen many love birds around, but let us have a close view of Bollywood’s couples who are madly in love with each other. Here we dissect their charisma and their on-screen chemistry that packs a punch. Bollywood brings us many good looking on-screen couples, however some pairs are very unique. Their amazing chemis- try, perfect emotion, high comfort level and not to forget the secret “X” factor makes them the on-screen power couple that lend excitement to the film and at times they become the reason for the hits, or misses of the year. Together these couples not only attract the paparazzi, but also arouse the interest of large corporate houses that pay them astronomical sums for product endorsements that today they make more in brand endorsements than in films! Let us look at Tinsel town’s top five power couples. TOP FIVE POWER COUPLES OF THIS ERA SAIF ALI look sizzling hot, they Saif. In 2004 she began POWER 1KHAN AND definitely make it as one of dating actor Shahid Kapoor KAREENA Bollywood’s power couple whom she eventually KAPOOR LOVE HISTORY: parted ways with during Both Kareena and Saif are Saif had married actress the filming of “Jab We Ifamous for their baggage Amrita Singh in October Met” in early 2007. In of past failed relationship. 1991 and after thirteen September of the same Saif has proved that love years of marriage and two year speculation arose has no time frame, as in children – daughter Sara that she was dating Saif just three months of their and son Ibrahim – the Ali Khan. On 18 October COUPLES being together he realized couple divorced in 2004. 2007, during Manish that he was so madly in His children live with their Malhotra’s grand finale love with Kareena that he mother. show at the Lakme Fashion got her name tattooed on Kareena had been in a Week, Saif confirmed their his forearm! They party serious relationship with relationship to the media. as a jodi and can’t live Shahid Kapoor for almost STRENGTHS: Their without each other. As the three year before finding attractiveness, talent and ‘bade nawaab’ and Bebo her ultimate soul mate in impressive family lineage. Bollywood Lifestyle Magazine IssueIssue 66 ✱✱ Feburary February 2010 45 ✱ CCOVEROVER storySTORY LOVE HISTORY: Abhishek was earlier Bollywood movies. engaged to Karisma Kapoor. The duo had WEAKNESS: Aishwarya shares a much announced their engagement at Amitabh better on screen chemistry with Hrithik Bachchan’s 60th birthday celebration in Roshan as compared to her husband. 2002. They later called off the engagement FUTURE ProspecTS: If they manage in January 2003. to maintain their chemistry in the films and In 1999 Aishwarya began dating real life they will soon gain the tag of India’s Bollywood actor Salman Khan; their best couple. relationship was often reported in the MOVIES THEY worked media until the couple separated in 2001. TOGETHER IN: “Guru”, “Dhoom – 2”, Ash cited “abuse (verbal, physical and “Dhaai Akshar Prem Ki”, “Kuch Naa Kaho”, emotional), infidelity and indignity” on the “Sarkar Raj”, “Umrao Jaan”. part of Salman as a reason for ending their ENDORSEMENTS DONE AS A pair: relation – though Khan has denied this. She Lux was later linked to actor Vivek Oberoi, but she never confirmed the relationship. SHAH RUKH KHAN Abhishek and Aishwarya announced their 3A ND Gauri CHIBBER engagement on 14 January 2007, and on 20 They performed their marriage rituals April 2007 they got married. thrice, the first was a legal marriage, the STRENGTHS: Their phenomenal success in second was performed according to Hindu WEAKNESS: Low on-screen chemistry. Abhishek Bachchan and Aishwarya Rai FUTURE ProspecTS: They will continue are still one of Bollywood’s top couples to remain in the spotlight as long as they are both on, and off screen. The fact that he together, and a hit film should further enhance belongs to the Bachchan family and is one their appeal. of Bollywood’s leading stars and she is one MOVIES THEY worked TOGETHER of the Indian film industry’s highest paid IN: “Tashan”, “Kurban”, and “Omkara”. actress means that financially they are a ENDORSEMENTS DONE AS A pair: powerhouse. Add to that their excellent Airtel. on screen chemistry and their success in “Guru” saw producers find the duo a very ABHISHEK BACHCHAN attractive couple. This jodi seems to have 2AND AISHWARYA RAI come up straight from Bollywood having BACHCHAN lots of drama, humor, suspense, and finally Though the public interest in them is not romance makes them one of Bollywood’s as intense as it was before their marriage, power couple. 46 Issue 6 ✱ February 2010 Bollywood Lifestyle Magazine COVER STORY ✱ MOVIE THEY worked TOGETHER IN: None ENDORSEMENTS: None HRITHIK ROSHAN AND 4SUZANNE KHAN Hrithik Roshan and Suzanne Khan knew each other since they were kids as they lived in the same locality. Suzanne is an interior designer. His amazing dancing skills along with a huge fan following – ever since the release of his first film, which turned a blockbuster – and the fact that his wife comes from an illustrious lineage them gives them a right to be placed among the top five Bollywood power couples. marriage rites and third was the Muslim LOVE HISTORY: Roshan is married to ‘Nikah’. They have a daughter Suhana and Suzanne Khan, owner of Susanne Roshan’s son named Aryan. House of Design and is the daughter of His acting skills and larger than life image actor Sanjay Khan. The couple have two husband-wife duo are a powerhouse nothing has been officially confirmed. definitely give them a place in the exclusive sons, Hrehaan born in 2006 and Hridaan of talent. Kajol and Ajay Devgn are an STRENGTHS: Their acting talent is their league of Bollywood power couples. born in 2008. adorable two-some. They married after a strongest point. LOVE HISTORY: Shah Rukh Khan STRENGTHS: They are a celeb jodi that five year-long relationship that transcends WEAKNESS: Kajol does not have the spotted Gauri when she was only 14 years comes from a well-known family lineage. looks and personalities. Ajay is dark and same on-screen chemistry with her husband of age freaking out in a disco in 1984 and WEAKNESS: They do not come from has an angry young man look, while Kajol as she does with SRK. he was attracted to her at first sight. They the same profession, and this could prove a is lively and bubbly. Even though they are FUTURE ProspecTS: Right now they decided to become husband and wife in hindrance. poles apart they have worked in many films are not doing any more films together but 1991. FUTURE ProspecTS: Together they together. Both of them have delivered their future is unpredictable, and if the right STRENGTHS: King Khan has stuck by his can work as a team for various film projects. hits consequently qualifying them as a project comes up they might hit it to the wife through good times and bad and was MOVIE THEY worked TOGETHER Bollywood power couple. top spot, however this time they better get never romantically linked with any star. IN: None LOVE HISTORY: Kajol married Ajay it right. WEAKNESS: Both of them are from the ENDORSEMENTS: None Devgn on 24 February 1999. On 20 April MOVIES THEY worked different field of work though connected 2003 she gave birth to a daughter named TOGETHER IN: “U Me Aur Hum”, “Raju which could be a drawback at times. AJAY DEVGN AND Nysa. The good girl that she was, Kajol was Chacha”, “Pyar To Hona Hi Tha”, “Dil Kya FUTURE ProspecTS: They could make 5 KAJOL MUKHERJEE not linked with any other Bollywood star. Kare”, “Ishq”, “Gunda Raj”, “Hulchul”. good cover page stories for magazines, or “U Me Aur Hum” might have flopped, Ajay, however, has been occasionally ENDORSEMENTS DONE AS A pair: even talk shows. but there is no denying the fact that this linked to a few Bollywood actresses, but Whirpool and Tata Indicom. Bollywood Lifestyle Magazine Issue 6 ✱ February 2010 47 ✱ COVER STORY TOP FIVE GOLDEN COUPLES AMITABH AND JAYA each other. 2 BACHCHAN Javed has a son Farhan and a daughter Amitabh Bachchan and Jaya Bhaduri have Zoya from his first marriage to Honey Irani two children Shweta Nanda and Abhishek which ended in 1980, following which he Bachchan. Amitabh and Jaya are one of the married Shabana Azmi on 9 December most famous Bollywood real life couples 1984. Shabana is the daughter of the famous as both of them made a career in films and Urdu poet, Kaifi Azmi. became well known actors who worked together in several films. They finally tied the knot on 3rd July 1973 and today they MANSOOR ALI have two grand children named Navya KHAN PATAUDI AND NEETU AND RISHI SHARMILA3 TAGORE 1KAPOOR On 27 December 1969, Bollywood film Rishi Kapoor and Neetu Singh are one of actress Sharmila Tagore married Mansoor the most famous celebrity couples in the Ali Khan Pataudi, nicknamed Tiger, former Bollywood film industry. Audiences simply captain of the Indian cricket team. He was loved Rishi and Neetu as a pair on the silver the 9th and last Nawab of Pataudi until screen and they soon became a teenage 1971, when India abolished royal entitle- DILIP KUMAR AND romantic sensation of the seventies.