4 min readMumbaiApr 19, 2026 12:13 PM IST Eleven years after the death of her husband and popular music composer Aadesh Shrivastava, actor Vijayta Pandit maintains her real-life love story was “way better than” her debut film, Rahul Rawail’s 1981 blockbuster romantic film Love Story. Vijatya started her career alongside Kumar Gaurav and also fell in love with him, only for the two to go separate ways due to parental pressure and neither making it big as an actor in Bollywood. “Meri real life ki love story jo Aadesh Shrivastava ke saath hain, I think woh love story meri original love story se bhi bahut achhi hain (I think my real-life love story with Aadesh Srivastava was way better than my original love story),” said Vijayta recently. “There was a lot of love there. We both had a similar family background. We met, just fell in love, and got married. I was very happily married to him,” she added. Vijayta Pandit, sister of actor-singer Suklakshna Pandit, and cousin of popular music composer duo Jatin-Lalit, found …