Bollywood actor Manoj Bajpayee is counted among the most accomplished actors in the industry. Manoj Bajpayee has done more than 70 films in his career so far and is celebrating his 53rd birthday on Saturday. Manoj Bajpayee's wife Shabana Raza is also known as Neha Bajpayee and she is also an artist. Very few people know the love story of Manoj and Shabana and today on his birthday we are going to tell you about the love story of Manoj and Shabana.Was love at first sight
Manoj Bajpayee had told in an interview about his first meeting with Shabana Raza and said that he had fallen in love with Shabana at first sight. Manoj Bajpayee met Shabana in the year 1998 during a Bollywood party. Please tell that Manoj Bajpayee was married to a girl from Delhi, but later both got divorced and separated. Then he met Shabana, whom he fell in love with at first sight.Heart sitting on the simplicity of Shabana
Manoj Bajpayee met Shabana in the year 1998 after she made her debut with the film 'Kareeb'. Although both kept on dating each other for a long time and after a long series of talks and meetings, both of them got married in the year 2006. Both also have a daughter. In Manoj's biography 'Kuch Paane Ki Jid', Piyush Pandey has quoted Manoj Bajpayee as saying that he was losing heart over Shabana's simplicity.
Manoj got into thinking after seeing the oil in his hair.
According to the book, Manoj Bajpayee told, 'When he reached the party, he saw a girl sitting without makeup, with oil in her hair and glasses on her eyes. I thought man, if any heroine of Bollywood does not have enough courage to come to the party by applying oil in the hair, then I just fell in love with simplicity. It has also been told in the book that Shabana was in depression in those days. Because his film 'Kareeb' flopped at the box office and now he only had one more film.
Manoj and Shabana had reached the party unnecessarily
Like Manoj Bajpayee, Shabana also did not want to come to this party. Although both of them had reached this party unintentionally, but luck had mixed both of them with each other. Manoj Bajpayee and Shabana dated each other for almost 8 years after which both of them got married with each other. On the work front, Manoj was seen in ZEE5's Dial 100.