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Saawariya Only!!
[11 Sep 2007>
Deepika Padukone, the latest sexy and sizzling hot babe of bollywood, was dumped by Ranbir Kapoor not because he wanted to, but because his ' Saawariya' director Sanjay Leela Bhansali wanted it that way. Sanjay Leela Bhansali felt that if Ranbir Kapoor came in the limelight due to his affair with Deepika Padukone, his film would be sidetracked and suffer at the box office.
As a source close to Sanjay Leela Bhansali says, ' Sanjay did not want Ranbir to come in the spotlight for any other reason but the film. He wanted the focus on Saawariya only. During Ranbir's sister Riddhima's wedding, the director had given strict instructions to Rishi and Neetu Kapoor not to allow the media any access to newbie.'
According to sources, Sanjay Leela Bhansali got alarmed when Ranbir Kapoor's name began to appear in media, not due to his magnum opus ' Saawariya', but for his rollicking affair with the ' Om Shanti Om's sexy siren Deepika Padukone. Sanjay called Ranbir Kapoor's parents Rishi and Neetu Kapoor and told them to stop Ranbir from meeting Deepika, if they wanted his debut film to do better at the box office.
Due to this pressure from parents, Ranbir Kapoor suddenly stopped taking any calls from Deepika Padukone, which led her to return to former beau Nihar Pandya, whom she had ditched for Ranbir. And thus curtains came down on the budding romance of two most eligible bachelors of bollywood.
HmâŚâŚhmâŚâŚseemsâŚâŚSanjay Leela Bhansali is advocate of love only on screenâŚâŚ but off screenâŚ..Pyar Ka Dushman, what say Ranbir -Deepika?? âŚ..or it was some sort of insecurity on the part of master filmmakerâŚ..hee tee hee hee!!....remember Shah Rukh's Om Shanti Om and Sanjay's Saawariya are slated for the same day release in November!!
âK K Rai
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