- Born
- Birth nameDimple Chunnibhai Kapadia
- Height1.59 m
- Born in a Gujerati-speaking family on June 8, 1957, daughter to businessman, Chunnibhai and Betty, Dimple has a younger sister, Simple, who was born on 15 August 1958.
She was discovered by Raj Kapoor, who signed her up opposite his son, Rishi, in the 1973 hit 'Bobby'. The film made Rishi and her stars overnight, at the time of the film's she was just 16 years old.
Exactly 6 months before the release of 'Bobby' Dimple who was a mad fan of super-star Rajesh Khanna, met and married the actor. Rajesh was 15 years older than her. After her marriage she quit films.
On Rajesh's 32nd birthday, a daughter, Twinkle nicknamed as Tina, was born to them. Then on July 27, 1977, Dimple and Rajesh became parents of Rinke, who would later also become an actress in her own right.
Dimple and Rajesh separated in 1982, enabling her to make a come-back to the tinsel screen with 'Zakhmi Sher'. She continues to act and has over 69 movies to her credit, some of them the more popular ones being 'Saagar', 'Insaaf', 'Zakhmi Aurat', 'Ram Lakhan', & 'Batwara'.- IMDb mini biography by: rAjOo
- SpouseRajesh Khanna(1973 - July 18, 2012) (his death, 2 children)
- Children
- ParentsChunnibai Kapadia
- RelativesSimple Kapadia(Sibling)Suhail Kapadia(Sibling)Mamta Bhayani(Cousin)Kirit Kapadia(Cousin)Greta Suryakant Parikh(Aunt or Uncle)Ashok Kapadia(Aunt or Uncle)Jagdish Kapadia(Aunt or Uncle)Reem Kapadia(Sibling)
- From 2000 onwards, usually played motherly roles.
- Sexy persona in early days.
- Often played morally supportive female leads to the male leads leading to latter's transformation or eventual triumph.
- Mother of actress Twinkle Khanna, mother-in-law of actor Akshaye Kumar Mother of actress Rinke Khanna. Grandmother of Rinke Khanna's daughter, born on October 19, 2004.
- Sister of Bollywood actress Reem Kapadia. She passed away from a overdose in 1990. Many had connected her with the infamous Hinduja Flesh Trade scandal. Some reports even suggested she took own life.
- An Ismaili by birth.
- Was to star in the female version of Amar Akbar Anthony with sister Reem Kapadia and Salma Agha. It was to be made in Hindi as Seeta Salma Suzy and Bengali as Lakhi Durga Saraswati. The star cast was later changed to Moon Moon Sen, Sudha Chandran and Archana Puran Singh. Only the Bengali version was released.
- Dimple was only sixteen years old when Raj Kapoor introduced her in 'Bobby' (1973). She also got married to Bollywood superstar Rajesh Khanna at the age of 16. Despite the enormous success of 'Bobby', she then took a sabbatical from acting to raise her children.
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