Barkha, Indraneil back on track By: Vickey Lalwani November 30, 2006
Dil Ki Baatein: Barkha Bisht
Barkha Bisht and Indraneil Sen Gupta's love story is going places. The two are madly in love, and Indraneil visits her often on the sets of Zoom's Popkorn Newz. They've now become an inseparable trio: Barkha, Indraneil and her pet dog Pepper.
A source close to Barkha tells us, "Indraneil is a regular visitor on the Popkorn sets when Barkha is anchoring. If and when she is busy, he passes his time playing with Pepper. Most of the time, they leave together after the shoot."
'He's hot!'
Barkha does not deny that Indraneil visits her on the sets but says that she is not in a relationship with him. "We are very close, but we are not dating. This relationship can get meaningful in future, and if it does, I will talk about it then."
Barkha says, "Indraneil is fun to be with. He is a very nice guy and looks very hot. He has one of the best bodies on television. I have seen him without a shirt when we were shooting for Pyaar Ke Do Naam. He works out every day. I wish I had time to work out like him," she says with a laugh.
Switching topics to discuss things on the work front, Barkha says that she shoots for fours hours everyday for the show. "The channel is in the process of finalising a new girl to be the second anchor right now. Shveta Salve was supposed to do it earlier, but I don't know what happened."
Cordial relations
Barkha is also doing Aroona Irani's new show Doli Saja Ke (Sahara One), which will go on air next month. She plays the lead opposite Amit Sareen. "I play a very simple girl who has had a very restrained childhood due to family problems. Anuj Saxena and Jaya Mathur play my parents," she says.
Previously, Barkha was in a relationship with actor Karan Singh for two years, whom she met on the sets of the MTV-Balaji show, Kitni Mast Hai Zindagi. Their split raised many eyebrows in the industry as the couple was on the verge of getting married.
Unwilling to spell out what went wrong between Karan and her, she says, "We had personal differences, so we went our separate ways. We are not in touch now. We are cordial to each other if we bump into each other, but that's about it."
Prior to his liaison with Barkha, Indraneil was dating Pratichee Mohapatra of VIVA Fame.