The two got married in the year 2006 and are now parents to a baby girl. Manoj Bajpayee, in his biography ‘Kuch Paane Ki Zid’, written by Piyush Pandey, has told about what quality of Shabana had fallen in his heart and she settled in his heart at first sight.
The two met at Hansal Mehta’s party, where the 100th episode of their TV serial was being celebrated. In this book, this anecdote of Manoj Bajpayee has been mentioned in this way, ‘When I reached the party, I saw a girl sitting without makeup, with oil on her hair and glasses on her eyes. I thought, man, any heroine of Bollywood does not have enough courage to come to the party by applying oil to the hair. So I just fell in love with this simplicity.
It has been written in this book that Shabana was in depression in those days as the film ‘Kareeb’ flopped at the box office. Shabana only had one more film with her, ‘Hogi Pyaar Ki Jeet’ and like Manoj, she too came to the party very reluctantly. The two started meeting after the party and while spending time with Manoj, Shabana started forgetting her troubles. Shabana soon introduced Manoj to her family and then they dated each other for 8 years before getting married.
On the work front, Manoj Bajpayee was last seen in the second season of ‘Dial 100’ and ‘The Family Man’ released on OTT. Recently he has started shooting for Devashish Makhija’s thriller drama ‘Zoram’.