Despite their separation as husband and wife over two years ago, Bollywood star Aamir Khan and filmmaker Kiran Rao maintain a strong bond, exemplified by her graceful presence at the wedding of Ira Khan, Aamir’s daughter from his first marriage. In fact, Kiran also shares a warm relationship with Aamir’s first wife, Reena Dutta.
During a recent chat with The Week, Kiran recalled a touching moment when Ira, whom she describes as “an excellent painter just like her mother Reena,” surprised her with an oil painting of a street in her beloved city of Berlin. “It’s the street where Café Cinema is located. I didn’t expect it. It was the sweetest gift she could give. In the middle of a wedding, amidst all the planning, to think of individual gifts that would appeal to each of us… We were in tears,” she recalled.
Reflecting on her close bond with Aamir, Reena and others, Kiran mentioned that inclusivity comes naturally to them. “It comes very naturally to us as people to be inclusive. My family was also at the wedding. It’s something that we honestly didn’t have to think about. We are a family. In fact, we have Monday night dinners where we all get together.”
“We also live in the same housing society. My mother-in-law stays upstairs, Reena lives next door and Nuzhat (Aamir’s cousin) also lives nearby. It’s because we genuinely like each other as human beings. I hang out with Reena and Nuzhat independently of Aamir, too. My sisters-in-law live upstairs and I adore them. These are relationships you shouldn’t lose if you get divorced. Aamir and I didn’t have an acrimonious divorce; we may have parted as a couple, but we are very much a family,” she added.
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“I encourage this. If you don’t have a familial bond at the end of a marriage, it’s something that you might be losing out on because there are so many years that you would have put into that relationship, and you take away the best from it.”
Aamir Khan and Kiran Rao, who worked as an assistant director to Ashutosh Gowariker on Lagaan starring the former in a lead role, got married in 2005. In 2011, they announced the birth of their son Azad Rao Khan through a surrogate mother. In 2021, the couple announced their separation in a joint statement.
“In these 15 beautiful years together we have shared a lifetime of experiences, joy and laughter, and our relationship has only grown in trust, respect and love. Now we would like to begin a new chapter in our lives — no longer as husband and wife, but as co-parents (to Azad) and family for each other,” the two noted.
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