How Anupam Kher-Kirron Kher fell in love: ‘He had nothing then…’

Veteran actors Kirron Kher and Anupam Kher got married in 1985. As the couple is celebrating 37th wedding anniversary today, we recount their love story via images.

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   Veteran actors Kirron Kher and Anupam Kher got married in 1985. As the couple is celebrating 37th wedding anniversary today, we recount their love story via images.

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   Anupam Kher shared this photo from his and Kirron’s wedding and wrote, "Happy anniversary dearest #Kirron. Dug out this pic of our wedding 37years ago from the Treasure Trunk of my father during my recent visit to Shimla!😍! May God give you all the happiness, long and healthy life. सालगिरह मुबारक! 😍🌺😍 #MarriageAnniversary #Kirron #Anupam #37Years #Pushkarnath." (Photo: Anupam Kher/Instagram)

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   Kirron Kher shared the same wedding photo and wrote, "Happy Anniversary @anupampkher darling. May God bless us always. Thank you for being there with me for all these years. I miss you today as you are in Mumbai and I am in Chandigarh. Lots of love ♥️." (Photo: Anupam Kher/Instagram)

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   Kirron Kher and Anupam Kher's son Sikandar Kher, from Kirron’s first marriage with Gautam Bery, too wished the couple. "Happy anniversary to my parents ! To many more in good health .. ps: and that’s my Naniji ❤️ #Anniversary #Kirron #Anupam #Naniji." (Photo: Sikandar Kher/Instagram)

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   Last year too, Anupam shared a click from his and Kirron's wedding and wrote, "It has been a long journey with all the possible emotions of laughter, tears, arguments, sharing, friendship, love and togetherness! But a journey worth it. These black and white pics have all the shades of colour in them. Stay safe and healthy. Love and prayers always! " (Photo: Anupam Kher/Instagram)

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   Sharing her love story with Firstpost, Kirron Kher shared how they started off as close friends when they were married to different people. (Photo: Kirron Kher/Instagram)

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   "We both were in theatre in Chandigarh, and we were the best of friends. There was nothing he did not know about me, and I knew everything about him, up to the extent of knowing which girl he was planning to ‘patao’. It was fun and we worked together well too. But there was no attraction of any kind beyond friendship," she had said. (Photo: Kirron Kher/Instagram)

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   Kirron Kher added that when she came to Bombay and got married to Gautam Bery, the marriage ‘was just not happening’. Simultaneously, Anupam Kher was facing difficulties in his marriage too. (Photo: Anupam Kher/Instagram)

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   She also added, "He and I were still good friends, doing plays together. I remember, we were going to Calcutta for Nadira Babbar’s play, he came looking different, his head was shaved, for some film he was doing, I think. When he was leaving the room, he looked back at me, and something passed between us. Later he came and knocked on my door, and said ‘I want to talk to you.’ He then said ‘I think I have fallen in love with you.’ And suddenly there was this immense, intense change, the chemistry exploded. I got a divorce and married him. He had nothing then." (Photo: Sikandar Kher/Instagram)

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   The couple also faced a financial crisis when Anupam became a producer and had to borrow money from people in the industry, a few years after the marriage. (Photo: Anupam Kher/Instagram)

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   Anupam Kher and Kirron Kher stood by each other in thick and thins of life. Here's wishing a happy wedding anniversary to the couple. (Photo: Sikandar Kher/Instagram)