Through her paternal grandmother Mohinder Kaur, Amrita is the great-granddaughter of Sobha Singh, OBE, of Hadali, Sargodha, one of the builders of New Delhi, and the great-niece of the late Novelist Khushwant Singh. She is also related to many personalities in the Indian film industry through her mother, and later through her marriage to actor Saif Ali Khan in 1991. The couple married in an Islamic wedding ceremony. Singh converted to Islam before marriage. 12 years younger than her, Khan is the son of former Indian test cricket captain Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi, the ninth Nawab of Pataudi and Actress Sharmila Tagore. Their daughter Sara Ali Khan was born in 1993, and son Ibrahim Ali Khan in 2001. Amrita gave up acting for a family life with her husband. After thirteen years of marriage, they divorced in 2004.