Kiran Mehra, Vinod Mehra's wife, expressed her love for Rekha and described her as a 'wonderful person' who had remained 'honest to her husband' until the end. During the 1970s, Vinod Mehra and Rekha developed a close friendship, and it was widely assumed that the two had married, which Rekha later denied to Simi Garewal in 2004.