Salman Khan Almost Married Sangeeta on May 27, 1994

Salman Khan has long played the reluctant bachelor of Bollywood, but one chapter of his past suggests he once came far closer to marriage than that image allows. The woman was Sangeeta Bijlani, and the proof was a set of wedding cards that had already been printed.

A wedding that was almost real

Khan and Bijlani were a headline romance from the late 1980s into the mid-1990s. By his account and the reporting of the time, they dated from 1986 to 1994 and had even fixed a date: May 27, 1994.

The wedding never took place. Reports from that period claimed Bijlani called it off after discovering Khan’s alleged involvement with actor Somy Ali. Neither side has ever confirmed the full story, but that detail became part of the relationship’s legend.

What Salman said on Koffee With Karan

Khan rarely discusses his personal life, which is why his 2013 appearance on Koffee With Karan still gets quoted. Host Karan Johar asked about his marriage plans, and Khan said he was not looking for a partner or ready for a serious commitment. Then he offered a rare look back.

He said he had come very close before, and that other people got cold feet. The line fans remember best was his admission: “With Sangeeta, even the cards were printed.” When Johar asked whether Khan had been “caught”, the actor first said, “Yeah, kind of,” before retreating into humour about denying everything.

Sangeeta’s quiet confirmation years later

For years, the printed-cards detail sat somewhere between gossip and Bollywood trivia. Then Bijlani appeared on Indian Idol 15, and a contestant asked directly whether the reports of a planned wedding and printed cards were true.

Her answer was brief: “Jhoot toh nahi tha” — it wasn’t a lie. She did not elaborate, leaving the details of the relationship largely untouched.

Why the story still matters

The near-wedding holds its place in filmi conversation for a few reasons:

• The timeline: Khan and Bijlani reportedly dated from 1986 to 1994, making this one of his longest public relationships.
• The evidence: Both have now acknowledged, in their own way, that the wedding preparations were real enough for cards to exist.
• The aftermath: Bijlani married former cricketer Mohammad Azharuddin in 1996; they separated and later divorced in 2010, while she and Khan stayed cordial.

The continued curiosity also says something about how 1990s star romances were covered. Wedding-card rumours, alleged love triangles and later reconciliations were all treated as public narrative, long before social media made such scrutiny routine. The printed cards for Khan and Bijlani remain one of the era’s cleanest “almost” stories.

For Hindi film fans, this is less about reopening an old breakup and more about the rare, confirmed look it offers into a period Salman Khan prefers to keep off-screen. It also explains why a single date—May 27, 1994—still works as Bollywood trivia decades later.

Source: The Times of India