| Dare to bare |
| While Bollywood stars love to be hush hush about their romances, TV couples like to go gush gush |
| The love bug has found a new home—television. We aren't referring to the romances that are the key ingredients of daily soaps. It's the behind-the-scenes affairs of the heart we are talking about. Indeed, romance is in the air when it comes to television stars. And everyone knows about it. While the stars of the silver screen make quite a song and dance of hiding their romances and going red in the face denying affairs, often falling back on the line, ''We're just friends,'' most telestars can't stop gushing about their love affairs. Some even go public on teleshows like MTV's Ishq Deewane to proclaim their love for each other. |
| In Bollywood, the women actors often fear that being linked with a steady beau, or worse, the knowledge of their marital status going public, could spoil their 'image' and mar their careers. So, what makes our TV actors come out in the open, instead? Live-in TV couple Neeru Bajwa and Amit Sadh have never fought shy of their status. ''I'm so tired of repeatedly talking about my relationship now,'' says Bajwa, who co starred with Sadh in Guns 'n' Roses on Star One. Poonam Narula and Manish Goyal, Delnaz and Rajiv Paul, Mansi and Rohit Roy, Sai Deodhar and Shakti Singh, our telestars are an item on and off screen, and lose no opportunity to let the world know that. Maninee Mishra, who came to be noticed as Pari, the hot-but-dumb secretary in Sony's Jassi Jaisi Koi Nahi, is a mother of a six-year-old in real life. According to her, in films, a woman's image is virginal. ''The sociological conditioning of people is such that they want something that doesn't belong to anyone. Once someone's 'taken', their charisma goes away. Though, nowadays, it adds more to the woman, if she's a wife and mother. It adds various facets to her persona. And if I'm physically fit, then that's what matters,'' she says. Actor Rajeshwari Sachdev is married to Varun Badola and the couple was among those that featured on Ishq Dewaane. Sachdev says that society has become more accepting of watching a married woman play different roles on the small screen. ''Today, if you don't have a boyfriend, people think something's wrong. Earlier, film actors would not reveal their relationships, though with examples like Bipasha Basu and John Abraham, they are opening up, too,'' she says, and adds that TV has a wider variety of stories with many more characters to play, which allows its actors more freedom in the way they connect with their audiences. ''It's not as if all TV couples are uninhibited about their relationships,'' says Keerti Gaikwad, actor and wife of Sharad Kelkar from Saat Phere. ''It's just that the medium demystifies women to an extent. There are young unmarried women who play mothers to people their age.'' Also, it is the married TV couples, or those who are engaged, like Gurdip and Arjun Punnj, who are most vocal about themselves. As Ashish Patil, VP and GM (creative and content) of MTV says, ''Most often, only married couples agreed to appear on the show.'' |
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