Bollywood’s picture-perfect singles admit it. Most of them don’t have a love life, they only have ‘good friends’. From Vivek Oberoi and Aishwarya Rai, who are, “supportive of each other” to Shahid Kapoor and Kareena Kapoor, who are “only buddies,” to Salman Khan and his “family friend Katrina Kaif,” there’s only “pure friendship”.
In Bollywood, sparkling stars don’t mind sharing cosy candle-lit dinners, being seen at filmi dos and doing films together, but don’t even dare to link them. It’s uncool to be ‘girl friend/boy friend’ because in tinseltown fancy-free singles are most wanted.
Teeniebopper Shahid Kapoor’s ishk vishk with Kareena Kapoor is therefore restricted only to posing for photos for their film when they aren’t shooting together. “Where’s the time for love? I am so busy with my career that I don’t want to divert my attention” counters Shahid. Ditto for Kareena: “Shahid’s a great friend.” And we almost believed that!
Even Aishwarya and Vivek are friends, who airdash to hold each other’s hands when one of them is hospitalised. Having found love over a Cola commercial shoot, they have a mutual admiration society. Vivek finds her a “beautiful person,” while Ash treats him like “my best friend.” Katrina Kaif’s love boomed-er bloomed in shirtless Salman’s arms, the two set Goa on fire on New Year’s Eve and close danced at Salman’s birthday bash. Still, she is “Salman’s sister Alvira’s best buddy.” Shamita Shetty and Aftab Shivdasani date each other secretly and in public, claim to be “good friends” That’s Bollywood for you!
