‘Boys’ Siddharth falls in love yet again?

Sam and Sid in 'Jabardasth'.

Long, long time ago, when films first made their appearance in India, there was a popular trend among producers and directors who desperately wanted to ensure that their films made money at the box office. They would start circulating rumours that the lead actor and actress were madly in love with each other and are very likely to get married within days of the film’s release. In addition to getting lot of media attention, it also used to bring in curious crowds to the theatres. As mentioned at the very beginning of this article, this used to happen a long time ago.

Then, when the readers and audience noticed that just about every other actor was comfortably falling in love with his female co-star just before the film’s release and the “torrid romance” died soon after the film flopped, they stopped taking the rumours seriously.

Keep this in mind while you read the following.

‘Jabardasth’ is the new film in Telugu that quite a few people are talking about. Samantha and Siddharth are playing the lead roles. Towards the end of last year, Samantha began dropping elaborate hints in her interviews that she was romantically involved with someone. Now, everybody is loudly guessing that it could be Siddharth.

Siddharth seems to have a jinxed record when it comes to “romancing” actresses whose names start with S. Soha Ali and Shruti Haasan were the ones who were romantically linked to him in the past. Now, it is Samantha’s turn.

Frankly, if I have to choose between believing either that Sid and Sam are in love with each other or that it is a very outdated publicity stunt, my vote is always for the latter. Now, not everybody is like Nayantara when it comes to surviving link-up rumours. Hope Samantha is aware of the career risk she is taking with these rumours.

And seriously, what's the matter with her (or her costume designer) when it comes to picking up blouses for half saris? The ones she wears in her song sequences are yikes!!!