Dimple Kapadia Movies and Career Information

Dimple Chunnibhai Kapadia (born 8 June 1957) is an Indian film actress. In her early career, she starred in commercial movies, such as Bobby and Saagar, but later took on more intense roles in parallel films such as Rudaali and Lekin. Kapadia is the eldest daughter of Gujarati entrepreneur Chunnibhai Kapadia and Betty. She was discovered by Raj Kapoor, who introduced her in his 1973 movie Bobby. She was sixteen at the time. She married actor Rajesh Khanna at the age of 16, and left the film industry to raise her children. After Kapadia's divorce, she returned to the film industry in 1985, in the film Saagar, where she once again appeared opposite her Bobby co-star, Rishi Kapoor. Kapadia appeared in many movies throughout the 1980s and 1990s. In 1993, she won the National Film Award for Best Actress for her performance in Rudaali. She played an alcoholic in Dil Chahta Hai (2001). In 2005, she once again starred with Rishi Kapoor in Pyaar Mein Twist, twenty years after their last on-screen pairing, and thirty-two years since their first. In 2006, she starred in her first English-language film Being Cyrus. Kapadia acted in Luck By Chance. She married actor Rajesh Khanna six months