Wednesday, July 03, 2013

Salman Khan Vs Rahul Gandhi = Filmdom Vs Politics

By Niloufer Khan / Mumbai

If there is anything more confusing than Rahul Gandhi‘s role in the Congress, it has to be Salman Khan’s role in the lives of several beautiful women who make it to tabloid headlines everyday. A quick round up of recent news around Salman and women would throw up stories about the actor planning to launch Katrina’s sister Isabella, advising Suraj Pancholi to get rid of Jiah Khan and backing starlet Sanaa Khan who allegedly tried to abduct a 14-year-old girl.

With partial or no confirmation from Khan, these pieces of news fizzled out after Twitter ran out of jokes. However, the girl who has remained in focus is Iulia Vantur, a Romanian TV actor who has earned the good fortune of being called his ‘girlfriend’ by the media.

So who is Iulia Vantur? Since, none of us have enough language skills to refer to Romanian TV we’ll have to go by hearsay.
Vantur is an actress – pretty, blonde, fair with blue eyes. You would have mistaken her for one of the several hundred background dancers in expensive Bollywood films, but then this picture surfaced on the internet. This was Lulia/Iulia looking ecstatic while lounging in a fairly uncomfortable angle on what looks like a window ledge. And she is wearing a Being Human t-shirt. Gossip mills no lost time to decipher the reason behind her inexplicable glee in the picture as a possible association with Salman Khan.

A celebrity gossip website added fuel to the fire by evocatively recollecting how Salman  Khan, extended his shoulder to Iulia who was nursing a broken heart. It might have been since the two met thanks to her former flame, Grammy winning musician and Romanian producer Marius Moga in Romania. The blog reports:

Salman reportedly hosted Iulia during her month-and-half-long second visit. He also helped her to get over with Moga chapter. Both are in constant touch with each other and are seen together at many places.

Sometime in May this year Hindustan Times reported that Khan, tired to getting the short shrift from women who dump him, has decided to marry his Romanian girlfriend.

The agencies quoted a concerned source as saying: “Bhai (Salman) is extremely serious about his new girlfriend. She has been in his life for around two years…everyone is telling him to marry  her.”

In a dutiful follow-up, papers have reported today that Iulia might have moved into Salman’s parents’ house, who, obviously are happy with the development. India Today reports:

If the grapevine is to be believed, Lulia is staying with Salman’s parents. No, don’t jump to any conclusion yet. Here’s the explanation – Lulia is based out of US and she is new in this country. She doesn’t know the language nor is she familiar with the place.

So, as expected, Khan offered her accommodation at his parent’s place. Iulia, meanwhile, has kept the gossip mills abuzz by appearing regularly in the web in bridal red saris or in Indian attires, bindi et al, visiting religious shrines. For all you know, this might be a social media fairytale, destined to fizzle out once it has run its course. But who’s complaining when it’s so much fun playing guessing games?

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