Aao Bash Kare; Aish Hain Iss Mein Hi (IO) - Page 35

Another romance appears to have bitten the dust. It seems like only yesterday that this young film director and this celebrated author began seeing each other. They first caught the media's attention when they showed up together for the wedding celebrations of a casting director in Delhi last November, where they did little to hide their mutual affection. Around the same time, they attended a literary fest in Mumbai, again looking very much in love.

Despite the fact that the author lived in Delhi and the filmmaker in Mumbai, and the significant age difference between the two, friends say they were perfectly compatible and made the most of their time together. The author, who is currently hosting a show on television, made regular trips to Mumbai, and the filmmaker began traveling frequently to Delhi too.

But now insiders are saying the couple has split. And that the long-distance nature of their relationship may be the cause of their break-up. Others insist it is the fact that they come from such different worlds. The filmmaker, who delivered a big box-office blockbuster last year, is close friends with his superstar leading man, and counts big names in Bollywood as his inside circle. The author, meanwhile, moves in erudite Delhi circles, and couldn't be more out of place at a filmi party.

GUYS, It's Ayan and a Paskistani MALE author...can't be blind not to see that Ayan is gay! actually, this was reported back then last year in this blind from BL:

We live in liberal times. 2014 is almost upon us and we like to believe that we are free of prejudice. Which is why we applaud fearlessly and openly a gay love story that we witnessed with our own eyes at the literary carnival organised annually by a local rag at Mumbai's Mehboob Studios that concluded last weekend. Like in most literary events in Mumbai (literary and Mumbai in the same sentence is a shocker, we know, but we crave your pardon), Bollywood set the tone. What drew excited murmurs was a lovey dovey couple that roamed the fabled environs of Mehboob hand in hand, looking deep into each other's eyes, whispering sweet couplets, or perhaps setting future couplings.

One half of the couple is the writer son of a slain Pakistani politician. The other, our own Bollywood element as it were, is a two film old director who has made back to back hit heterosexual romances, both starring the hottest young upwardly mobile actor around, who belongs to one of the first families of Hindi cinema. The actor's last film however, directed by a potty-mouthed one-hit wonder, was a box office disaster. We commend this open, out of the closet relationship, and wish more such public figures would come out.