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Kaho na pyaar nahin hain!
Bollywood actresses break up publicly
with their dear and near, and an eager media laps it
up.
BY OUR NEWS EDITOR
 So there were 16 instances of sex between 1999 and 2004? Huh.
Looks like there was a sex counter somewhere. My boyfriend was cheating on
me; I left him about a year after coming to know about it. They don't need a reason to cheat. Also, my momma cheated me of my money,
you know. So I am suing her. Stay tuned. Bollywood's stinkometer keeps rising.
The season of stink opened with the Preeti Jain episode where the
aspiring Bollywood actress dragged director Madhur Bhandarkar to court, screaming rape and forced sex. She "claimed" rape in the media farce
and downplayed it in her court case. Bhandarkar& Co struck back, claiming she had been blackmailing other movers and shakers of
Bollywood and that she is in the habit of using the same tactic to get her work done.
Ms Jain refused to be cowed down by this attack on her character and
called Bhandrakar a "rapist" and asserted that she is quite familiar with his anatomy before a drooling media! The court finally granted
anticipatory bail to Bhandarkar. Meanwhile, the debate rages on whether Bhandarkar can be
accused of rape if she slept with him 16 or 16,000 times hoping to get a role in his movies. Let's wait for all
the salacious details. Let the case drag on in court!
PYT Amisha Patel did not let the standards fall. The actress, who
caught our attention with the Hrithik Roshan-starrer Kaho Na Pyar Hain five
years back is in the eye of a storm, charging her parents with mismanagement and embezzlement of her wealth. Amisha went public with
her charges about her parents in the media. Parents did not baulk either. They
declared that Amisha was being misled by director Vikram Bhatt. The next day,
Bombay Times splashed a photo (We don't now if it was file picture) of
Vikram and Amisha, where Vikram turned the heat on her parents and "stood by"
Amisha.
Mahima Chaudhuri-Leander Paes romance was the toast of the media for
years. And when it collapsed, the vultures, naturally, homed in and Mahima was only too willing to unravel the heartbreak in media. He
cheated, she alleged. He was dating behind my back, took me for granted, men don't need a reason cheat, blah blah. She also
acknowledged that she knew about his roving eye earlier. One wonders why Mahima chose not to act before and preferred the media farce.
What is it that makes Bollywood beauties feel so good about washing
their private linen in media view? In many cases, the media farce goes
hand-in-hand in their personal / legal battles. The
girls, it appears, don't retain a sense of privacy and become mere creatures of media.
To let anything happen out of sight of the flashes of camera bulbs is as heart-rending as the
heartbreak. Maybe, they would like the entire country
to sympathise with them. Maybe the sympathetic
vibrations from all living rooms re-energize and
revitalize them for another day on the sets. Or maybe
they just decided that in the end, their lives are
movies too, to be watched and enjoyed by the 'aam
aadmi'.
BY OUR NEWS EDITOR
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