In the 1990s, Akshay Kumar and Twinkle Khanna, who would later become husband and wife, first met while working together on a film set. After their marriage in 2001, she did not pursue any further acting roles. Twinkle later revealed that she had never aspired to be an actor, unlike her parents, the late Rajesh Khanna and veteran actress Dimple Kapadia, and therefore did not feel a sense of loss regarding her acting career after her final film, Dharmesh Darshan's Mela in 2000, which also starred Aamir Khan.