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Filmi family tree: Know how Ranbir and Abhishek are related?

October 01, 2013 16:29 IST

Image: Ranbir Kapoor and Abhishek Bachchan
Photographs: Pradeep Bandekar

Think you know everything about Bollywood? Test your gyaan here!

The Kapoor and Bachchans -- Hindi film industry's two premiere families -- came close to sealing a new relationship when Abhishek Bachchan and Karisma Kapoor got engaged on Amitabh Bachchan's 60th birthday in 2003.

While that relationship fell through soon after that, many don't know that Abhishek is still related to Karisma, and by extension, to her younger cousin Ranbir.

Click NEXT to find out how!

Filmi family tree: Know how Ranbir and Abhishek are related?

Image: Jaya, Amitabh, Shweta, Agastya, Nikhil Nanda, Abhishek and Aishwarya Rai Bachchan. Inset: Ritu Nanda
Photographs: Pradeep Bandekar

Abhishek's sister Shweta is married to Escorts Group head Nikhil Nanda.

Nikhil happens to be the son of (Rajan and) Ritu Nanda -- Raj Kapoor's daughter and hence, Karisma Kapoor and Ranbir's aunt.