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Bollywood
calling
Saif-Kareena:
Something's got to give
Saif Ali Khan and Kareena Kapoor's relationship makes more news
than their films. But will Bollywood's 'it' girl Bebo put up with
the possessive Chote Nawab for long?
By Shahrezad
Samiuddin |
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These
days Saif Ali Khan has been jet setting around the world, trailing
Bollywood queen Kareena like a lovesick puppy. That cannot be a healthy
sign for any relationship, let alone a high profile one. Last we heard,
Saif had followed Kareena to Shahrukh Khan's Temptation Reloaded show
in Amsterdam. Earlier he had flown to Bangkok for her performance
at the IIFA awards, where he also found the time to have the infamous
clash with her allegedly over her skimpy dress and then disappeared
during her performance. As if that was not enough, he also rather
scandalously had a behind-locked-doors-canoodle in the ladies restroom
in a restaurant back home. And lest we forget, he has bought her a
Beemer and promised her solitaire earrings. Phew.
Every few years this father of two morphs into a love struck teenager
and a familiar pattern repeats itself. With ex-wife Amrita he defied
his parents, who thought she was much too old for him, and eloped.
Post-shaadi Amrita resurfaced in her new
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as the perfect biwi and maa. From being a top female lead in Hindi
cinema, the woman, suitably tamed, gave up her promising career to
settle into domestic bliss. Bliss that was perhaps more Saif's than
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Speaking
about Amrita in an interview with Karan Johar on Koffee with Karan,
the now divorced Saif admitted he 'was extremely well taken care of.
Now I must do things like running a home, which is something I have
never done.' That should give Kareena a clue to what the man wants
in a woman: someone who will pamper him and build her life around
him.
Indeed, his next quarry fit the job description to a 't.' Enter Rosa
Catalano: gorgeous, Italian and as far removed from Bollywood as it
gets. In the beginning, said Rosa "I was just happy to be there
for him, I never bothered about myself." Sounds like something
Amrita would have said during her bliss, doesn't it? Not only was
Rosa the furthest thing from Bollywood, she was also gullible. In
a recent interview she revealed that when she and Saif got together
she did not know that he was married, let alone that he had two children.
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At
the height of the Saif-Rosa romance, he gave a statement that on hindsight
gives away more that it was intended to. He summed up Rosa's appeal
when he said "Unlike Amrita, Rosa is not from the film industry.
Sure, I liked being put in touch with the industry's bigwigs by Amrita,
having dinner with Karan Johar. But in hindsight, I'd have been better
off finding my way through the industry. There's a theory that whatever
I am today is because Amrita took me by my finger and led me through
it all. It's probably true. She has played a big hand in my growth
as an actor and human being. But it's a blessing to be with a woman
who has nothing to do with movies. Even Shah Rukh's wife Gauri keeps
out of his career. I'd like to keep it that way."
For a while, rather conveniently for Bollywood's most famous onscreen
metrosexual, it stayed that way. Till of course Rosa got a life. Rumour
has it that when gorgeous Rosa began to spread her wings and Bollywood
began to notice this exotic beauty she was royally and promptly dumped
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Where
Amrita had got a rather unroyal runaround for alimony and eventually
had to start work, Rosa was left in the lurch. "I feel bad
when people talk about things like Saif has gifted me an apartment
in Mumbai. After I broke up with him, he has done nothing for me
at all. I am not even on talking terms with him after my break-up.
Today, from my phone bills to my rent, I pay everything on my own,'
clarified Rosa.
The pattern should be clear even to a bat. Saif Ali Khan sweeps
you off your stilettos in true Nawabi style. Then he smothers you
with attention till you don't have a choice but to succumb. Next
he expects you to be completely dependant on him. And god forbid,
if you try to spread your feathers, exes Amrita and Rosa would tell
you, that you'll be dumped like an unsexy ubla hua aloo and bear
the wrath of a very stingy ex-beau. |
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Recent
reports of problems in the Bebo-Saif relationship have all centered
on his obsession with Kareena and his inability to leave her alone.
He doesn't like her talking to Salman Khan. He calls her ALL the time.
He doesn't like her dressing skimpy (it's her job, Saif).
Is the pattern going to repeat itself? It has already started. Saif
is desperately attracted to a very public figure, and cannot reconcile
his desire to curb and confine her to himself. The man is not all
wrong. In the real world it is difficult to manage two successful
careers within the bounds of a long-term relationship. It can be done
(think John-Bipasha). But when Saif Ali Khan forms one half of |
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relationship, experience tells us that something has to give. In Amrita'a
case, it was her flourishing career. In Rosa's case it was the relationship.
Wonder what it will be with Kareena. |
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