1. Gauri Khan
Beauty, energy and talent, all-in-one makes Gauri Khan, wife of Bollywood’s King Khan aka Shahrukh Khan.The dearest and loveliest lady grabs the number one position and rules the list. She is an eminent film producer and an innovative interior designer.
Gauri largely remained the typical glamorous wife of a superstar. But beyond the power, glamour and richness, lies a strong woman of substance. She has added charm to their beautiful home, raised their kids, looked after her husband and his family, and given him protection and peace of mind. Naturally, she is the bigger hero.
Gauri manages to keep the perfect balance between her personal and professional life and spends most of her time with children and at business. She guides her children and ensures they have a good upbringing. She had been the main producer of Red Chillies Entertainment, and also launched Charcoal Project, an interior design studio along with Sussanne Roshan.
2. Adhuna Akhtar
Adhuna Akhtar is the love-lady and also the wife of one of the most incredible actors of Bollywood, Farhan Akhtar. The star wife is known for her exclusive and distinctive dressing style. Mrs. Farhan Akhtar is also known as a great hair-stylist and is a fashion expert.
Adhuna has worked really hard, along with her best buddy husband, and secured a distinctive place in Bollywood. She has touched the apex of success with her innovative and cult hairstyles from Aamir Khan in “Dil Chahta Hai” to Hrithik Roshan in “Lakshya”.
Apart from hairstyling, there are a lot of things Adhuna would like to explore, not as a profession, but things she would like to do, i.e. travel, sketch, sports and being outdoors. Despite leading a wild professional life, Adhuna ensures that she spends quality time with her daughters, Shakya and Akira, and husband Farhan.
3. Mehr Rampal
Once a model, always a model! Mehr Jessia Rampal is one of India’s most outstanding supermodels. Mehr lit up India’s ramps at an era when fashion designing was gradually coming to life in Indian subcontinent and cutting-edge designers were preparing to start an ‘Indian’ school of fashion.
Former Miss India and ex-supermodel Mehr Rampal, has a number of accolades in her basket. The bold and beautiful star lady is having a top seeded place in India’s very first crop of supermodels. Being the wife of debonair and classy Arjun Rampal, she has managed to be in the Top 10 Most Powerful Bollywood Star Wives list.
Mehr quit modeling after her marriage and is presently running a production house called Chasing Ganeshaalong with her husband. She is also the co-producer of the film “I See You”. The star wife’s life now revolves around children, home and husband.
4. Kiran Rao
It’s said that behind every successful man there is a woman. Now as the rules have been revised, the saying has also turned the other way round for the supremely talented director, scriptwriter and producer, Kiran Rao.
Kiran had set the stage for her actor-husband, Mr. Perfectionist Aamir Khan, to showcase his acting skills in an immensely disparate and liberated style in the film “Dhobi Ghat” (2011), also her sensitive directorial debut. Although not a commercial blockbuster, “Dhobi Ghat” was imbued with mood and soul and much loved among the Indie crowd.
The feisty filmmaker admits that being a mother has changed her outlook on so many things. Kiran has motivated a new generation of mothers. Surrogate pregnancies have gained popularity and Kiran is one of the first celebrity women to fruitfully bring in its benefits.
5. Twinkle Khanna
The wife of the Bollywood action hero Akshay Kumar aka Khiladi, and a famous fashion designer, Twinkle Khanna firmly holds a position in the list of the Top 10 Most Powerful Bollywood Star Wives. Despite having a not so successful career in Bollywood film industry, this gorgeous lady is powerful because of her action hero husband.
In 2001, after eight years in the Indian film industry and roles opposite all three superstar Khans, Twinkle dumped her Bollywood dream and became a successful businesswoman, great columnist and creative interior designer. The lady is now running her own fashion designing firm, named as Mock Ups. She also opened a design store called The White Window.
Twinkle reveals that the transition between the two careers was fortunately smooth as Akshay was always there to help and that gave her a lot of confidence to switch jobs.
Today, 15 years after the switch, Twinkle has proved herself as a serious and sincere interior designer whose sense of aesthetics and approach has won her a good number of awards and clients.
