Freida Pinto – A lost love story!

As soon as one become a star there will be hell of a lot controversies coming and hitting from all directions. It was not different in Freida Pinto’s (Slumdog Millionaire fame) case as well, shot into fame over night. In London, US and India she became one of the most recognizable faces! Thanks to the brilliant Oscar winner movie Slumdog Millionaire. Being famous and being recognized by the crowd was a beautiful feeling for her in the beginning as she was one of the millions walking down in the street without drawing any attention till last year. Dany Boyale turned her struggling professional life upside down to provide the fortune along with her co star Dev Patel in the same movie.

Freida Pinto never revealed her private life in any interview, suddenly a news broken out that she was married to an Indian called Rohan Antao in Goa in December 2007, she kept the wedding as a top secret because as aspiring actress in Bollywood, spinster stand a better chance to strike big in glamorous world than that of a married one!

Rohan Antao seems to be heartbroken after Pinto ended up the relationship in January 2009. The fame, money, glitters are blinded Pinto to such an extend; she can’t even recognize her own husband in a fine morning. The couple had been together since 2004, Rohan stood by her through thin and thick, each and every time she fails to impress Mumbai movie Directors, he gave her the shoulder to ease on. He was her encouragement and support, they both studied in St Xavier's collage in Goa. When she took up modeling as a profession he provided her everything she required, physically, mentally and financially. According to one of their common friends; "Freida and Rohan fell in love at college and were extremely close. They were great together. The marriage was an impulsive decision and both of them went to a designer to get the gown made. Rohan was with her throughout her years as an actress when she was not at all famous. He supported her during the filming of Slumdog and the pair even celebrated the film's success at the Toronto Film Festival together last year. However, she just stopped calling him around the time of the Golden Globes awards, when the film started to make waves internationally. He is completely shocked at being dumped and is heartbroken."

A great story for a full masala bollywood movie is already here, just like some greats said in the past the real life is stranger than fiction! A poor fellow who loved his wife with his heart and tears, supported and pushed her to fame, hung around at each studio doors where she had interviews and screen tests, smoked hundreds of cigarettes while waiting for her to come back from the shooting locations after the modeling assignments, at the end he has been dumped like an ice stick right after she achieved all what he wished for! Can’t strike a tragedy in one’s life worst than this!

Freida Pinto’s Indian agent, Meenakshi Gehani, said: "We do not want to comment on this matter. However, if she is married then whoever is claiming it should produce a marriage certificate."

Frieda met Rohan for the last and final time to beg him not to spoil her shooting star career; she was ready to give anything he asks for except herself. Money, wealth, flat or luxury car. The dejected lover wiped off his tears and walked away from her, in that long quick walk not even once he turned around and looked at her! He was the one once running her website and handling her publicity to launch her career hoping and dreaming to be a proud husband with her in red carpet and flashing lights when she become famous one day!!

The latest news is Freida is in love with 5 years younger, Slumdog Millionaire co-star Dev Patel! Both were denied the news before several times though the press had caught them lip locking and cuddling in beaches and cafes! Now Freida had confirmed she is dating 19 year actor Dev Patel describing him as a lovely boy! “ the friendship blossomed after the movie, it got even stronger now! This is all new to us”

For some unknown reason Bollywood bad man Gulshan Grover doesn’t seems to have such a good liking towards Freida Pinto. In recent visit to LA Gulshan Grover told his white friends that Frieda Pinto’s overnight success is not a big deal, in fact he went on claiming; each and every Goan girls resembles Frieda. But after seeing Freida’s steamy pictures in so many western glamour magazines; none of them were ready to believe Gulshan, they tried to correct Gulshan in return saying she is one hot chick, and deserve all the success she is having now! Mmm, now I know the yard stick for an American actress to be a successful one!

Dev Patil’s mother also seems to be very happy. “First it was the film and now everything else seems to have slotted into place. Life can't get any better for him. "Freida is really beautiful and I am really happy for them."

In February 2009 Slumdog Millionaire co star Anil Kapoor claimed that the couple were having a secret relationship, now we know Anil bhai was right on the money! OK, Mr.Anil Kapoor, what all the other stories you knows about them? Like, how often they share the bed, which position she prefers, what all they talk in free time, why is she laughing loud whenever they are together…

What ever the case we wish a much better life for Rohan Antao, and really hope he get some brains to avoid the mistake that he did with Pinto in future!

Dhoni v/s Sehwag – Truth revealed!

As I said before there is a fire underneath that thick white smoke.

There is certain smugness about Indian cricket that financial brawn work better than brains. So much so that instead of putting Sehwag through the fitness check scanner, the administrators simply went by the word of the player who in his part guilty of hiding his injury. If BCCI is having any sense at all, should be warning Sehwag for hiding his injury and give an example for the other players, some disciplinary measure should have been taken to avert him from doing so in future. But it is most unlikely to happen in Indian cricket as most of the cricketers are bigger than the game itself.

In Sehwag’s case BCCI has taken a stand to count all Sehwag’s talent, experience and record to wash off his guiltiness that he did to such an extend to pollute the team atmosphere in dressing room.

Sehwag has been a prolific batsman who gets runs in any surface that too in no time, agreed, but he should have set a good example by opting out from the T20 World Cup by admitting his injury that got struck in IPL. I am assuming Sehwag was little scared of the media for blaming him playing for money in IPL without looking after his fitness, where more important match is ahead to represent hi country. When he knew he was not fit for cricket, Sehwag should have done a favor to the Indian cricket team by opting out rather than going to England with the team and make unnecessary dispute with the captain.

Dhoni was furious for a million reasons, no captain worth his salt will tolerate a player who is so important in team planning and strategy hides his injury. This is the lone reason Dhoni had to have verbal fight with Sehwag, by knowing the attitude of Sehwag he will never step behind when a fight brake out, putting forward all his own reasons to contradict the view of captain and team.

Dhoni also need to be blamed partially for his childish behavior with Indian media. Rather than fighting with the journalists to show the world how he fought with Sehwag in the dressing room and distributing embarrassingly nursery quality piece of paper with nasty handwriting to reveal how bad his own hand writing is, he would have drew more dignity by coming clean on this issue with a proper press meet with calm and cool temperament.

Nobody shed tears after they learnt Viru is departing from England but only one player! He is none other than Rohit Sharma, ironically it was the tears of joy. He get chance to open the batting without any pressure or threat, and till now when this writer is typing this article; he has been doing marvelous job with the bat in opening slot. Grabbing the opportunity with both hands in absolute greediness.

Now Dhoni had revealed great news for the millions of Indian cricket fans that he is not planning to come at no.3 throughout the tournament. It seems like one of his thousands of experiments gone badly wrong. Good thing is he realized it before it gets too late.

The lack of openness, players being unapproachable and unprofessional ways of dealing the media, lack of BCCI’s insights all contributed the shadowy scenario that you find beneath the glossy and polished surface. Now the tempest has settled down, not many damages are done as everyone in opposition had expected. Let’s start a smooth and comfortable run in T20 World Cup especially after entering in super eight with 100% success rate!

Mysterious Injury of Sehwag!

T20 World Cup - first round of the game is over, pictures got clearer by now. We know now who all are going to play in super eight or who all are packing up and going back home. Australian team looked as if they are bit confused to play a ball or leave the ball. Apparently the coach of Australian Cricket team had asked their top order batsmen to hate the cricket ball as if it secretly had sex with their loved ones, poor fellow was hoping at least by convincing the team members this way; batsmen would hit from their view whenever they sight a cricket ball, but coach had mysterious problem here to solve which he ignored conveniently or missed it completely, when opposition team had fast bowlers operating from both ends, Aussies boys are not even seeing a ball to hit, they see a red round object with white stitches around only when they get bowled out! Sigh…, well; they are not quite prepared for this. So blame the lack of preparation.

While all these bizarre things are happening with Australia, there is an Indian batsman who just woke up in a fine morning to realize that he is badly injured for quite some time and can’t play T20 World Cup 2009 any more! Virendar Sehwag ruled out from the T20 squad due to shoulder injury that he picked up in IPL semi final against Deccan Chargers!

“There is little I can do. At the moment I would leave for London with my wife (Aarti) and son Aryaveer," Sehwag said. To my ever suspicious journalist friends, under line the word “there is little I can do!”

Will you blame someone who thinks "then why the hell Sehwag has been picked up for Indian squad for T20 World Cup!?" This is exactly what a journalist friend of mine asked the coach Gary Kirsten. The answer was very convincing for Gary himself and was constantly shaking his head as if he himself is making it sure first. According to Gary Kirsten the injury what Sehwag had developed is very strange and it can happen one in a 1,00,000,00 sports persons!!! So unfortunately our Virendar Sehwag simply happened to be that one in last 1,00,000,00 sports persons!!!! It is not over here folks, listen to Gary’s further explanation “A Grade 1 injury is less than five per cent damage to individual muscle fibers. It's a mild strain however, if the patient continues to play, the condition will worsen. If ignored, a Grade 1 strain has the potential to become a Grade 2 strain or even a complete rupture.”

My question here is then how Sehwag’s so called A Grade 1 injury became Grade 2 when he didn’t play a single match in T20 WC? He was not doing anything with his shoulder after IPL other than lifting his son. If every one knows that the injury can worsen up if he play further cricket then why has he been included in Indian T20 WC squad?

There is smoke, thick white smoke, yes, you can be dead sure about the fire underneath somewhere! Indian Captain MS Dhoni got a task in his hand, he need to explain to media why Viru has been ruled out, look after the team’s performance, improve his own batting form and fight with internal politics. Captain cool dude became a hot tandoori in last press meet, where Dhoni literally lost his temperament and had a verbal fight with a jurno! Yeah, right. You know these journalists don’t you? As I mentioned in my previous posts; they simply don’t know what to ask and whom to ask. Instead of asking a question to physio of Sehwag they asked Dhoni! What do they expect him to reply?

Right after the fight and heated discussions in the meeting room the whole Indian team came to the press meet to show their unity. Captain Dhoni said “we are as united as ever” and left the press hall leaving all the journalists open mouthed with stun. They were waiting for so long with “N” number of questions that they wrote in a white paper to ask Dhoni. Obviously the press people got pissed off by Dhoni’s act, and that is exactly what Dhoni was wishing and expecting!

Dhoni should have asked Viru to attend the press meet and clear the cloud if there is no bad blood between them, which would have been much better idea than bringing the whole team members to the press meet and keep them behind like zombies to show the solidarity!

Thanks for all your encouraging comments; they are the water and minerals for this blog.

A tale of Andrew Symonds!

Andrew Symonds is one of the best batsmen in world cricket today who can easily rip apart any bowler by bat or by baath (talk – some areas they call it sledging!) If he is spinning the ball then you got a nuisance also along with the twirl especially when you are in batting side. But his side will just love him for doing so! He can floor any streakers who comes on his way too!

Symonds had a lot of problems from the day one. He is not that bad though the bad speculation and bad mouthed fellow cricketers tarnished his image. He is not a drunkard like many of you think, he drinks only in special occasions just like me and you do, no body can blame him for having special occasions literally every day isn’t it? And he drink only four Fosters beer, (just to start with) is that a sin? What is the problem for his fellow Australians if he mixes tequila with beer? And they talk about his fights in the bar. He fights only with guys who stare at him; it can be baseball players, football players or simply the bearers who just happened to be in wrong side of the bar. So what?

The biggest problem that Symonds faced in Australian dressing room was his own team mates, there is no Hayden, Gilchrist or McGrath in the team any more and the new bunch of young players looked at him as if they are watching a horror movie! At least this is what they heard about Symonds when they were playing for Australian Junior Cricket Team or their parents asked them to stay away from a person who’s got weird hair cut or ever white lips!

One late evening right after the Australian win against Pakistan; when all the players are returning to their hotel room, one young lad got in to Symonds’s nerves by simply avoiding and ignoring him like cow dung! Raising up to his reputation Symonds chased this young fellow till his room, the budding player was horrified and closed his room door to shake the whole hotel building, Symo knocked and kicked the door, end up making only some noise without the desired result, the young lad was terrified like a hostage surrounded by armed terrorists, shivering like a wet rat! Straight away Symonds complained to the coach. Coach called the young player to his room; he always kept a comfort distance with Symonds even when sitting there in the room.

Why did you run when you saw Symo? Why did you avoid him like plague? Don’t you think it is an insult to a great cricketer like Andrew Symonds? This time Symonds looked at the coach in anger to punch on his nose. Not because of anything but when coach said the word “a great cricketer” he chuckled unnecessarily! The answer from the newbie was surprising for both coach and Symonds!

“I was late to play my Xbox!”

Though Symonds astonished by the answer but the coach found it completely convincing enough and let him go without any punishment or further questions.

When Symonds gone to play IPL in South Africa, he was like a free bird, the Deccan Charger’s coach Lehman, captain Adam Gill Christ were very supportive, and the owner of the team offers a great liquor party every time they win, they offer same party every time they lose too, now this is exciting.

Gilly apparently advised Symo to have a tension less, glamorous life like how he and Heydo (Mathew Heyden) leads. No pressure cooker situations from Cricket Australia, no hectic schedule through out the year, make a huge amount of money that usually you make by playing the whole year for Australia, play only a month or so and relax in your favorite beaches with few babes, get drunk rest of the year. I am dead sure the last sentence has definitely motivated Symonds to make some deliberate problems in the dressing room and opt out of Cricket Australia intentionally! If the money he gets from IPL is not good enough; he can still make a lot from Lancashire by playing seasonal cricket!

IPL was like a party time for Symonds, just what doctor had ordered. He felt as if he was in a different world especially right after the Chappel Cup in UAE against Pakistan. He has been questioned for laughing out loudly, picking his nose, scratching his balls etc. He was tired of answering all these unwanted and unnecessary questions. Top of all he not supposed to get drunk during his stay with the team, now that is unbearable and heart breaking. When he went to South Africa he was like Alice in wonder land in IPL world, beer and girls are the basic thing you get there to start from, then you may improve game by game, every night is a party night. The bosses of IPL believed in a simple theory of “entertain the entertainer in order to get entertained!”

Though Symonds is planning to retire from international cricket by end of this week, he may get better and more devastating in domestic level for years to come. There are two types of people in the world, one who wait for their faith, another who creates their own faith!

"Dhoni v/s Sehwag" Assumption or Real?

There are a lot of speculation over MS Dhoni’s statement to the media when media asked him about Sehwag’s recovery from the injury that he developed during the IPL; Dhoni’s reply was as cool as cucumber

"May be you should ask his physio to issue a press release"

This is where he had gone terribly wrong. It was as if someone is asking an innocent and Ahimsa person; can you give me a stick so I can beat you up left right and center! Unfortunately being an Ahimsa dude Dhoni had gifted not only the stick but also with sharp thorns on it!

Immediatly Dhoni pressed the panic button and made a press conference to clear the cloud.

"This message is for the people of India and for Indian cricket fans worldwide and comes from the whole team, recent reports in the Indian media of a rift between me and Sehwag amounts to nothing but false and irresponsible media reporting,"

Mr.Dhoni, we hope you know the media better than anybody in the business, even you were a favorite kid of media at a point of time. They were just waiting for little bit of controversy or sensationalism to blow out of the proportion with a pinch of salt. To make a sheep a fox or vice versa is not a big deal for the press in any given time. So a statement that you said in the press meet is godsend for them.

On the other side of the coin; did we witness a curious case of “spilling the beans” here? Is there any substance in this gossip?

One could easily say yes!

Dhoni was tired of praising his deputy in each and every press conference he had recently, though Viru couldn’t show his real metal during IPL outing; his International cricket was on the rise; bettered his own position in ICC ranking as well. I would say it was media’s fault all together, why are they asking to Dhoni about Viru’s black mole on forehead or his deodorant brand all the time, not being gay partners it is very difficult to explain folks. If it let it go this way, press may ask next question why Viru is spitting on the ground always when he is out there to play cricket and making his own fielders to step on it to loose their balance resulting miss-fields or why is he losing hair despite of his uncluttered mind?! Instead why can’t you guys ask Dhoni something more interesting for him, about his lady body guards to protect him from ladies fans who suddenly appears out of blue to rush at him from all directions to press their boobs to suffocate him (it can cause a brutal asphyxiated death) or construction of his own temple in his native village? If not all these questions I mentioned above; at least you should have asked about his hair style that resembles electric shocked Simpsons.

On other side Viru is a man with steel testicles not bothers to fight for the captaincy or egoism just like his batting style, when it happens you can scream about it, if it is not then what the fuck, leave it and concentrate on the cricket what others play!

When I said something fishy going on in Indian cricket camp; my friend told me that is what they should not do while playing cricket, other wise it will be hard to find the difference between Andrew Symonds and the whole Indian cricket players?! I puzzled and stared at him in horror to know that he was referring Symond’s bunk over at a friend’s place for fishing during the practice session that earned him punishment from CA. Yeah, you are right; my friend was holding chilled Fosters can. Another real Australian!