NDTV Sources Are Liars: Rakhi won't marry Elesh

NDTV sources are lying if they claim the Rakhi Sawant-Elesh Parjunwala wedding is still on.

Rakhi has categorically told a friend there’s no marriage, that the NDTV’s Swayamvar where Rakhi Sawant apparently chose herself a bridegroom has turned out to be the Great Indian Farce. It mocked not just the institution of marriage but also the viewers’ intelligence.

Interestingly in spite of the first celebrity marriage on Swayamvar turning out to be such a hoax the channel is now going ahead with Season 2 of Swayamvar. This time it's Rahul Mahajan looking for a bride as viewers again get taken for a ride.

Says a wry filmmaker, "First Rakhi Sawant, not Rahul Mahajan will apparently have a strong of intended spouses lining up to marry a man whose wife accused him of spousal abuse. Do these channels think viewers are idiots?"

Controversies and Rakhi Sawant seem to go hand in hand. In fact Pati Patni Aur Wohis being lambasted for using infants as props between couples.

Raising to her show’s defence Rakhi says, “The babies have been brought into the show with their parents’ consent.

There was no pressure. And the babies were treated like royalty. I had no experience in baby care. I am neither a mother nor a nanny in real life. I had to tend to the baby given to me for 24 hours.

I lost 10 kgs in the one month that I was shooting for Pati Patni Aur Woh. I came out of the show dehydrated and ill and had to be hospitalized.”

Rakhi’s parting shot, “After the experience, I’ve decided not to become a mother when I marry. But I’ll have to do reality shows. A single girl has to look after herself.”

Riya Ka Naya Piya: Riya Sen spotted with a new man

Riya Sen was recently spotted with a new guy at two separate events in the past few days. First, at Salman Khan's Eid party; then at the ongoing fashion week in Mumbai.

Reveals a source, "Riya has just met this guy. Not much is known about him. But the couple seems to have hit it off very well and that's the only reason Riya is tagging him along everywhere she goes. They were seen constantly holding hands and appeared quite close after dashing out of Salman's Eid party."

Riya maintains, "I'm not dating anyone. I was with my friend Aushima and two of our very close childhood friends. Also, if I do start dating someone, I won't be embarrassed and hide it."

When asked about the new guy she was snapped in the backseat of a car with, she retorts, "Must be a family friend; why? I don't know what picture are you talking about. Relax. I am single and happy being so."

Riya's past squeezes

Ashmit Patel
Dino Morea
John Abraham
Khalid
Salman Rushdie

Three - Love Lies Betrayal: Movie Review

Director: Vishal Pandya
Cast: Ashish Chowdhry, Akshay Kapoor, Nausheen Ali Sardar

Anjini (Nausheen Ali Sardar) drives swanky Volkswagen, lives in a palatial mansion but still suffers from money crunch and makes a living out of teaching violin to kids. Furthermore she also volunteers to give free lessons to neighbourhood Indian offspring, as his mother showers desi compliments derived from Subhash Ghai’s Pardes (You can get a girl out of India, but you cannot get India out of a girl).

Anjini shares a strained relationship with her good-for-nothing husband Rajeev (Akshay Kapoor) who suggests selling off their castle. Finally they end up hiring just one paying guest though the house is big enough to be rented out for an entire secondary school, which could have put an end to all their money woes.

Sanjay (Ashish Chowdhry), who sings Hindi numbers (sounding suspiciously feminine) at the local Scotland pub, enters as the tenant. Anjini’s loveless marriage gets her close to Sanjay as they indulge in an illicit affair. Soon you sense that the film is adulterating into the adulterous anecdote of Murder (2004) (without any adult overtones) but post interval it pursues another Emraan Hashmi flick Aksar (2006). If you have seen either of the two or are accustomed to the Abbas-Mustan brand of triangular thrillers, it won’t take you long to comprehend the twist in the tale.

The pacing of the film might seem slow with just three characters central to the plot but the narrative comes to the point pretty soon. Vikram Bhatt’s script isn’t inventive or immaculate but refrains from being a pungent potboiler (like his earlier attempts) and has its moments in the latter half. There are inconsistencies in writing as the husband and wife fight over divorce in one scene and seem to have no issues in the subsequent. Or when Sanjay’s love abruptly switches from Anjini to her assets!

Pravin Bhatt’s cinematography is consistently composed in the fresh foreign locales. And couldn’t help pointing out but the background theme is suggestive of the verse ‘ Dil Tere Bin Kahi Lagta Nahi, Waqt Guzarta Nahi ’ from R D Burman’s popular love tune ‘ Kya Yehi Pyaar Hai ’ from Rocky .

This would be the first time that Ashish Chowdhry is not playing an out-and-out comic character (though there are some lighter shades to it). He doesn’t appear as menacing as his character demands but doesn’t disappoint either. Nausheen Ali Sardar comes up with a ‘fairly’ good and convincing performance. Akshay Kapoor is decent.

They say ‘Two’s company three’s a crowd’. Three – Love Lies Betrayal is crowded with too many derivations.