India, Sept. 11 -- In the early 2000s, Karisma Kapoor was one of Bollywood's top female stars. When her engagement with actor Abhishek Bachchan was announced, it made news for weeks. The two 'royal families' of Bollywood were coming together, it seemed. But it was not to be. Within months, their engagement was broken, and just months later, Karisma was betrothed to industrialist Sunjay Kapur.

Many in Bollywood asked who Sunjay was at the time. The Delhi-based industrialist was a divorcee and known to be the life of the Delhi party circuit. But none of that mattered to Karisma's mother, former actor Babita. A source told Hindustan Times in the mid-2000s that she always wanted an 'industrialist husband' for Karisma. "Sunjay was a good catc...