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Source 1: My friend Maanav:
Maanav has a girlfriend who's maasi is very close friends with Anil Kapoor. Maanav told me that once him and his girlfriend were talking, and the topic of the shahid and kareena break up came up and hse told him that Anil Kapoor told her family that the break up was not kareena's fault adn that she was very hurt by it. I believe, though I cannot remember correctly, that Maanav also told me that Anil talked about how he encouraged her to move on one day via phoen conversation.
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Source 2: Friend who wishes to remain anonysmous (dont hold her peronslly, these are not her views, this is what she learned)
"Hey, well i would love to share what people have told me but I just dont want to create any fights or problems between members. But since your interested i'll tell you here. I have heard a couple of different stories but they all basically left me with the same conclusion. Well, my sisters co-worker's fiance's mom is a bollywood insider. I dont know what she exactly does because my sisters co-worker didnt want her to tell anyone but she did tell me about her take on the Shahid-Kareena break up. She said Shahid and Kareena started having problems 6 months before he went to Canada for shooting. She said it got really serious when she felt Shahid getting close to another costar ( i dont know who) and Kareena tried to talk it out with him. Shahid was not interested in talking anything out and the relationship went bad. Her take was that towards the end of the relationship Shahid did not care about putting in effort to make it work and it was Kareena who was doing everything she could. She says that the relationship came to an end when Shahid cheated on Kareena. I personally dont know how much is true and how much isnt but this is what my sister told me. The lady who knows all this is supposed to be close with all the biggies of bollywood. She said Kareenas not the type to let a relationship just go and move on unless the other person does something to really hurt her. As a fan I believe this because I think Shahid must have really done something that hurt her for her to just let the relationship end as it did. I mean considering she put so much into it you know?
Well, anyways another source told me while I was in Bombay that the breakup wasnt Kareena's fault either. The source did not tell me the exact reason for the break up but did give enough clues for me to make a educated guess. The source said Kareena is very emotional and did her best to make things work. She told me things similar to what you posted in the hate topic about the girl from another forum and what she knew.
Even our drivers were on Kareenas side! It was obvious that our driver was a kareena fan since everytime we talked about her he would start talking about how beautiful he thought she was! lol But even he said that he has worked for many stars and his close friends have worked for Kareena. He said his close friends told him the breakup was very hard on Kareena. I was unsure whether to believe him because I thought maybe hes just making up a story and probably doesnt even know any stars! But I started believing him after he promised us he would let us meet Aamir Khan and he did! He said his best friend works for Aamir and that he would let us meet him. I think he deserves come credibility, after all he did fulfill his promise! Not just that but my aunt who is actually distantly related to Rani Mukerji and lived in Bombay all her teenage life said that the drivers know a lot about the stars personal lives. I was really happy to know that so many people say Kareena was not at fault!"
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Source 3: India forums user back in 2007 posted this, but I found it again, lol
"Hello Everybody. Please don't ask me the name of the source as I will not be able to give that up but the real reason for the breakup was Shahid insecurities.
From the time they got together my source who is very close to both shahid and kareena, He (Shahid) started to alienate her from all her friends namely tushar kapoor, Fardeen khan, Vivek oberoi etc, asked her not to sign movies with certain stars since he did not approve and if she was to be his wife as he then said, and she was so much in love with him that she never said no to anything he wanted her to do. So when he was not getting any work he made sure she spent all her time with him. Causing her to say no to some great movies.
Then she signed films just with him mainly, those didn't work. When they went on the concerts with Salman, he made sure she did not mingle with Salman or the other actors too much and kept her to himself.
Knowing Kareena as she will say anything without thinking and won't hesitate he let her do the talking and get a bad name for her self while everyone would say oh Shahid is so nice and calm. Kareena started beleiving that he was the one she will marry and at the beginning of this year flat out asked him with Vivaah coming up and he getting to close to amrita rao, she could not take it anymore of the suffering in silent bit.
On the other hand he finally was tasting success something which was the reason he accepted this alliance with her to begin with, because with Kareena even though he did'nt have work he knew he would always be in the news.
When she asked for marriage he flat out refused, since then they have been having problems, now that he started getting work and things looking up for him, he didn't need her, so he started creating situations so she would just storm out of the relationship. One such instant my source tells me was in the recent past on "Koffee with Karan" When karan asked shahid what had he left for kareena, since she had changed her life around for him. He shouted at her behind the scenes and gave her a lot of grief, saying that why your friends asking me such questions, there was a lot more as this source was a live witness, that went on.
She really cares for him so much even now since she invested 3 and 1/2 yrs and so much more in this relationship. He seemed real nice in the begginning but failure made him real bitter, he would'nt let any chance by to insult her in public, with her non-filmi friends starting to dessert the couple now. Then right before he was leaving for the shooting in Canada, he told her it was over, she could not beleive what she was hearing, she had fought with her family, friends, suffered professionally and he just walked away without any explanation, she called him and called him but no answer. Until one day he called and yelled at her cursing and all saying to leave him alone, she was devastated. Right around then she had started shooting for Tashan with Saif and one of these terrible phone conversations happened in front of Saif.
Shahid had really hurt her that day, She knew Saif from before but they were getting to be good friends now. Saif became her shoulder to cry on and are to this date just very good platonic friends, then the media started to hassle them, she was in no state to give any explanations having suffered a nervous breakdown and all that no one knew about. She just kept quiet while hoping shahid will come back to her, but by this time shahid had moved on, and was enjoying the fact that she will be blamed for the breakup and everyone will call her names, now her friends (the few that were left) told her to go to the press and say the real thing. She said no if that is what he wants then let it be I have always done as he wanted so no matter what I loved him truly and I'll lose face so he doesn't have to.
Saif got tired of media pestering them all the time so he just said yes we are together. My source tells me that they really care for each other and are good friends at this point nothing else, Kareena still hopes somewhere that Shahid might return so she does not want to start anything. Gosh there is so much more but I am tired of typing. A lot of dates and names have not been named so he (my source) does not get into trouble.
I don't really care for either of these people, since their lives are such drama!(DON'T SHOOT THE MESSENGER) MEANING ME"
https://www.indiaforums.com/forum/bollywood/767211/real-reason-behind-shahid-kareena-breakup
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Source 4: And finally, an article by a journalist: Upala KBR
Vidya connection to Shahid Kareena split
By: Upala KBR, Mid-Day
Tuesday, October 23, 2007
Bollywood : Wallpaper |
Contrary to speculations that Kareena Kapoor dumped Shahid Kapoor for Saif Ali Khan or that they broke up to give publicity to Jab We Met ' here's the real reason. A close friend of Shahid and Kareena reveals that the couple broke off more than three months ago and what drove the final nail to the coffin was the alleged relationship between Shahid and Vidya Balan, Shahid's heroine in Kismet Connection.
Things got sour
Says a source close to Kareena, "Shahid and Kareena broke off in July. They had been having problems for the last eight months for various reasons. Even while shooting for Jab We Met they would have fights.
After four-and-a-half years, both felt that they had outgrown the relationship. They had been fighting a lot and Shahid wanted Kareena to adapt to his ways.
It was Shahid's decision to break off. By the time Kareena went to shoot for Tashan in Ladakh, both had gone their different ways. It was an amicable parting."
But Kareena was still in two minds as she has always loved Shahid and didn't want to give up on a relationship in which she had invested so much of her time and emotions.
Reveals the source, "Then came the news of Shahid's increasing closeness to his Kismet Connection co-star, Vidya Balan, in Toronto and Kareena was shooting for Tashan in Jaisalmer. Initially, Kareena didn't believe the rumours and whenever she asked Shahid, he maintained that Vidya and he were good friends and nothing more."
But Kareena got a differnt version from her friend who swore by the increasing intimacy between the two co-stars, "Vidya and Shahid would spend hours on and off the sets. After the shootiong, they would vanish together. That's when Kareena finally realised that Shahid had truly moved on," adds our insider.
Emotional support
So when did Saif come into the picture? Says the source, "Kareena had always liked Saif as a friend. He's a wonderful human being loyal, supportive, protective and caring. When she was hurting he gave her emotional support.
It wasn't a rebound relationship as by that time she had come to terms that Shahid had moved on.
During the shooting of Tashan in Jaisalmer and
Kerala she found herself spending more and more time with Saif and finding plenty of things in common with him."
But that wasn't the end of the chapter according to the source. "Kareena has always reacted from the heart so when Shahid came back from Toronto she tried getting back with him one last time.
They met at designer Shabina Khan's home where Kareena asked Shahid for the last time if they could get back together.
"Shahid refused categorically saying that it wasn't possible for them to get
back together as he was involved with another woman.
Of course that doesn't mean that Kareena is bitter about it. Today she's very happy with Saif whom she dotes upon. She was thrilled when he announced their relationship at the Lakme Fashion Week last week," adds the source.
Are she and Shahid on talking terms? "Yes. Shahid and Kareena talk to each other almost every day. In fact, during the last day shoot of Jab We Met at Future Studios, Shahid, Kareena and Shabina had lunch together in Shahid's van.
Recently, when Shahid and Kareena met at Shabina's birthday (October 14) party in Aurus they greeted each other very amicably and were spotted chatting. It's just that today they have moved on with different people. In fact, Vidya is seen visiting Shahid's Raj Classic apartment in Versova almost every day. "
But certain actions of Shahid have upset Kareena. "Shahid had categorically asked Kareena not to talk about the break-up but Shahid went on air in Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa to declare that he was single. Kareena was hurt but she has accepted that.
Also she wasn't asked to be part of Voice of India and Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa by Ashtavinayak, the producers of Jab We Met and that's why Shahid came solo.
Why doesn't Kareena reveal the truth about the break up especially when Shahid has gone on air in Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa to say he's single? The source says, "Kareena won't talk because her parents Babita and Randhir Kapoor have strictly asked her not to talk about her personal life to the media. Right now Bebo's just living in the moment and not thinking about the future. She is very happy with Saif and wants to concentrate completely on her career."
When contacted Kareena said, "I won't comment on my personal life."
Vidya Balan and Shahid Kapoor remained unavailable for comment.
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