Viveik trying to face life with a smile

In Viveik's defence

After the Aishwarya-Abhishek story yesterday, we talked to a close friend and confidant of Viveik Oberoi. She was indignant at the way he had been treated. After much cajoling we got her to talk. She didn't wish to be named but wanted to set the record right on the Ash-Viveik romance.

So when did Viveik know it was truly over?
The last day of the year. On the New Year's Eve night, they were supposed to go out. She called him and told him that she wanted to spend New Year Eve with him. So he cancelled his plans and waited for her. When she didn't show up, he called her to ask her where she was. And she said, "I am not coming. And I am not answerable to you."

Didn't he see it coming?
"Ever after the Mid Day story of the Ash-Viveik split, on December 6, Viveik refused to accept that it was over. Even though all the signs were there, Viveik held on because she led him on to believe that it was all loose talk. She told him that she still loved him.

He should've seen it coming. All of us, his friends, kept telling him that the signs were all there. She didn't go to Zayed's wedding with him.

She kept telling him that she would come for the Home Delivery premiere, but at the last minute she called him to tell him that J P (Dutta) was not letting her come down to Mumbai. She was shooting in Jaipur for Umrao Jaan.

When did he first sense something was wrong?
Two days after Home delivery. Ash had promised him a day before that she would come for the premiere but she called at the last moment and said she couldn't come because of her Umrao Jaan shooting. For two weeks Viveik kept on calling and messaging her after Home Delivery released, but she just stopped taking his calls.