Her ability to generate chemistry with vastly different co-stars—the comic Govinda, the intense Akshay, the stoic Ajay, the goofy Salman—shows her range as a romantic lead. She understood that love looks different with different people.
The sparks flew on the sets of the 1994 hit Mohra . The chemistry was palpable, both on-screen and off. By the mid-90s, they were the "it" couple of the industry. Raveena was at the peak of her career, and Akshay was the rising action star. The chemistry was palpable, both on-screen and off
In "Dil To Pagal Hai" (1997), Tandon played the role of Pooja, a young woman who falls in love with a man suffering from a heart condition. The film, which also starred Aamir Khan, Shah Rukh Khan, and Karan Johar, was a massive success and cemented Tandon's status as a leading lady in Bollywood. In "Dil To Pagal Hai" (1997), Tandon played
: Raveena has since revealed that she voluntarily chose to quit acting to settle down with Akshay, as he reportedly insisted on her leaving the industry to marry him. Rasha and Ranbirvardhan.
Her legacy is not just about the men she romanced on screen (Akshay, Salman, Ajay, Anil) but about the fact that in an industry that often typecasts women as either "pure" or "bold," Raveena managed to be both. She taught a generation that you can dance suggestively in a raincoat in one scene and cry your heart out for the sake of a sister in the next—and that real love, like her career, always finds a way for a second act.
. They began dating while she was filming Stumped (2003) and married on February 22, 2004, in a grand ceremony at . The couple has two biological children, Rasha and Ranbirvardhan.