Filmmaker Kiran Rao was an assistant director on the 2001 film Lagaan. She and Aamir Khan first met on the sets of the film 'Lagaan'. When Kiran met Aamir for the first time, the actor was not divorced from Reena Dutta. However, Aamir and Reena got divorced in 2002, a year after the release of 'Lagaan'. In such a situation, many people consider Kiran to be the reason behind the divorce of Aamir and Reena. Now Kiran has revealed this in an interview. Kiran said that during the shooting of 'Lagaan' she rarely talked to Aamir. In an interview, Kiran said, 'Many people think that I and Aamir came together during 'Lagaan' but it was not so. We both came close during the shooting of 'Swadesh'. Aamir was shooting for 'Mangal Pandey' at that time. Then we shot some advertisements with Ashutosh Gowarikar.
Kiran further said, 'Earlier, after 3 years of Lagaan, we were not in touch. Even during the shooting of Lagaan, we hardly talked. But when we started dating publicly in 2004, people thought I was the reason for their divorce, which was not the case. Aamir and Kiran married in the year 2005 and separated in 2021. However, the two still work together, are good friends and are also co-parenting their son Azad.