Meet Naina Bachchan, the lesser-known niece of superstar Amitabh Bachchan

A former investment banker, Naina Bachchan is the megastar Amitabh Bachchan's brother Ajitabh Bachchan and Ramola Bachchan's daughter and cousin of Abhishek A. Bachchan and Shweta Bachchan Nanda. She has three siblings, two sisters Nilima and Nimrita and a brother, Bhim.

Naina Bachchan is married to actor Kunal Kapoor. After a couple of years of dating, the two tied the knot in a secret ceremony on February 9, 2015, in the presence of their immediate families, in the breathtaking locales of the Seychelles Islands. The couple and the family later raised a toast to the new beginning with a reception party at the capital.

Not many know that Naina Bachchan's cousin Shweta Bachchan Nanda played cupid and introduced her to Kunal. Soon after the two met, Naina and Kunal started dating in 2012 and exchanged solemn vows in 2015. 

After her marriage, in an exclusive interview with Verve Magazine in 2016, talking about shunning the limelight and the couple keeping a low-profile, Naina had said, "I don’t think it was ever a conscious decision on our part to say that we are going to be a 'low profile' couple. Being out of the limelight is a by-product of doing the things that we love the most. But that doesn’t mean we don’t go out and enjoy ourselves or that we deliberately avoid situations where we will be photographed because we don't."

In his interview with Verve Magazine in 2016, actor Kunal Kapoor had divulged details about his and Naina Bachchan's love story. Kunal had said, "We met at a fashion show, not at some theatre workshop, as is often reported. It was actually Karan Johar’s fashion show, and she was there with her cousin Shweta (Bachchan-Nanda). The strange thing was that I was not supposed to be there and neither was she. I had just walked the ramp for a show before, and I was leaving, when I bumped into Karan, who asked me to stay back for his show. As they say, timing is everything. A few seconds here or there and we would have never met each other. The next morning we were both to head back to Mumbai on separate flights, and I changed my ticket to be on the same flight as her. The rest, as they say, is history…

"When I met Kunal, the first thing that went through my mind was ‘Wow! Tall, dark and so handsome.’ Over time, it was a wonderful revelation to discover that he’s much more than his looks — he is one of the kindest and nicest people I have ever met," Naina told Verve. 

Naina and Kunal have been married for seven years and are going strong. The couple is deeply in love and Kunal often takes to his Instagram handle to share a glimpse of his blessed life with Naina.