John Abraham and Bipasha Basu's troubled relationship throws up the question whether the single working female in Bollywood has the time (and the energy) to invest in relationships, given the frenzied work ethic of the industry.
The normal time afforded to women to nurse a relationship that is smarting, is not available to women who work 14-hour shifts six and even seven days a week.
We spoke to three actresses who were single, and three who have been in long partnerships, and asked them what the problems of finding and keeping love in Bollywood were.
Archana Puran Singh, married to Parmeet Sethi 15 years: I don't work full time
I think it's difficult to maintain any sort of relationship any which way in the present day it is difficult. Thankfully neither my husband nor I work full time. I work about 5 or 6 days in a month and my husband works regularly for a few months and then gets a few months off. When we just started seeing each other we were both very free and met each other all the time. I think time is very important to a relationship. I don't believe in this nonsense about quality time. Time is a quantitative measure. Either you're spending time with someone or you aren't! When we started going out and when there was scope of scandals being portrayed in our relationship the press and media weren't so yellow. Today there is so much tabloidism in the media it's scary. I think that if there was journalism of this kind back then I would have to pay a very high price which I don't think I'm capable of paying.
Thursday 21 June 2007
Health and Fitness
Fan Fictions
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