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Showing posts with label Mandira Bedi. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mandira Bedi. Show all posts

Monday, May 18, 2009

Yuvraj and Mandira cosy up in South Africa

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According to sources from South Africa, Yuvraj Singh is believed to be more than just good friends with Mandira Bedi. Buzz is that the cricketer and the commentator have been bonding big time a couple of weeks after the Indian Premiere League took off.

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“They were very good friends earlier, but somewhere along the way they got too busy with their schedules and couldn’t really keep in touch,” says our source, adding that Yuvi and Mandy caught up in SA like more than just long-lost buddies. The cricketer and television hottie’s bonding hasn’t gone unnoticed. The two have even made it to the the famous ‘fakeiplplayer’ blog as the author writes, “Sometime during this tournament, the Prince and Sandy Baddy Babe have renewed their long friendship.

They have been seen together in clubs, hotel lobbies and corridors having long discussions on the finer nuances of the beautiful game.” Reportedly, Prince is the blogger’s name for Yuvraj Singh while Sandy Baddy Babe is Mandira Bedi. Now this is something that isn’t too hard to believe.. since the Kings XI Punjab captain is reported to be quite a ladies’ man, considering his partying ways in Mumbai, Delhi etc. That was after he had broken up with long-time girlfriend, actress Kim Sharma.

Yuvi and Kim were in a relationship for four years.. and were reportedly even considering marriage. But it is believed that his mother didn’t exactly approve of an actress bahu right from the time they committed to each other. Initially everything was hunky dory, but after a couple of years, his mother’s dominance began to show.

Yuvi, who’s known to be a maa ka laadla, reportedly gave in under pressure from her.. and gradually he and Kim drifted apart, sometime in the middle of 2007. It’s believed that Yuvi used to call and SMS her till last year, but wisened a year-and-a-half since their split, Kim didn’t revert to him.

Tuesday, February 3, 2009

Mandira Bedi Not Out

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She’s just as much at ease hosting reality shows, as she is, sharing the hot seat with Charu Sharma. Then again, she can just as easily shed her glam doll tag.

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That’s how the stylish Mandira Bedi underwent a reverse makeover to turn into a female Surinder ‘Suri’ Sahni for Meerabai Not Out. Sitting astride her scooty, sporting a kurti and glasses, hair neatly tied up, Mandira Bedi looked every bit the math teacher, Meera Achrekar.

No wonder when someone in the movie remarks about her character’s resemblance to Mandira Bedi, she says, “Main poore kapde pehenti hoon.” She sure is a sport, even if the dig is at her. And she’s not hesitant to call a spade a spade either. So when we ask her about her forthcoming movie, she says, “Well, 42 Kms is a film I haven’t seen and I don’t know what to expect until I watch it. We shot this film three years ago and when you release a film so late, you let a mini generation go by. I just shot and dubbed for it.”

She may have been dubbed controversy’s child, but she doesn’t pretend to be politically correct when we move to controversial territory — the Padma Shri awards, which left out Olympic medallists. “I’ve always wondered about the criteria for such awards. Unfortunately, there’s only one game that drives the country. Earlier, we may have had reason to think so, as we didn’t have international recognition coming in for other sports, but what is the excuse now?”

She would also like to see the Women in Blue get a share of the limelight for a change. “We want to see Tendulkar, Dhoni and Yuvraj hit their shots but nobody wants to see Mithali Raj and Anjum Chopra score a century.” And who would she like to see hitting a ton in IPL Season 2? “The good thing about the IPL is that you don’t have to back one team. You have a favourite player in every team!”

When Mandira’s not watching teams playing, she does some play-acting herself — on stage, that is. That’s what brings her to the city this time around. “Anything But Love is an intelligent comedy with a lot of identifiable moments. It is about two people who can neither live with nor without each other. When we performed this play in Mumbai, I invited all my friends who were married, engaged or had just started seeing someone.”

We bet the Kolkata audience — one of Mandira’s favourites — will find a lot to identify with in the play. That’s what Mandira’s counting on, too.