5 of the biggest Bollywood celebrity break-ups, from Salman Khan and Aishwarya Rai, to Ranbir Kapoor’s contentious splits with both Katrina Kaif and Deepika Padukone

Aug 18 , 2021

No Bollywood happy ending: Ranbir Kapoor and Deepika Padukone, Bipasha Basu and John Abraham, are to Indian celebrity couples who didn’t go the distance. Photo: @ranbirdeepi/Instagram, @IyanAmjad/Twitter

While many of these Hindi cinema superstars are now happily married, they had tumultuous past relationships – think cheating scandals and tabloid scraps

Bombshell break-ups include 90s couple Salman Khan and Aishwarya Rai, who started dating after working together in Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam

The world of celebrity romance is certainly a tumultuous one. While many Bollywood couples have stood the test of time, others have clearly had a remarkably short shelf life.

There are former flames who chose to remain friends, even appearing on screen together post-break-up, while others ended on more salty terms. From cheating scandals and heated exchanges, to even refusing to work together after a messy split, here are the five of the biggest Bollywood celebrity break-ups.

Salman Khan and Aishwarya Rai

It’s impossible not to include Salman Khan and Aishwarya Rai’s break-up on this list. The once golden couple started dating after they worked in the classic Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam in 1999 but ended their relationship in 2002. What followed after were heated accusations between the former couple. Rai told The Times of India that Khan had physically abused her. She also told the newspaper that he cheated on her.

“There were times when Salman got physical with me, luckily without leaving any marks and I would go to work as if nothing happened,” said Rai in The Times of India interview.

Khan denied that he physically abused the former Miss World winner.

Onlookers said they once saw the actor banging on Rai’s apartment door at 3am in 2001 before they broke up, according to India Today.

After the incident, the two vowed to never work together again and some even stated they pretended not to know each other in public spaces. Aishwarya Rai is now happily married to actor Abhishek Bachchan and the couple have an adorable daughter named Aaradhya Bachchan, while Khan remains a bachelor till date.