After being faced with that dreadful word commitment, Neil Nitin Mukesh has called it quits on his relationship of two years with designer Priyanka Bhatia. “I really don’t want to discuss it but I won’t lie,” he said, “It is true that Priyanka and I are no longer a couple. The parting was by mutual consent and very amicable. We’re still friends and always will be. Priyanka is still as welcome in my home as I am in hers.”
Neil is already moving on and is excited by his role in Saat Khoon Maaf as one of Priyanka Chopra’s seven husbands. “When I heard the script, I was zapped,” he said, “This was something I had to do. The fact that I get to be in the same film as actors like Naseeruddin Shah and Mohanlalji was incentive enough.”
Neil is also playing the role of an ice dancer in a Yash Raj romance with Deepika Padukone. A special ice rink has been created at Yash Raj Studios and Deepika is already practising assiduously. “They are both skaters in the films,” explained a source for the movie, “While Neil knew how to skate, and just had to brush up on his skills, for Deepika it was virgin territory and she required a trainer. Being a sports lover, the actress took it up as a challenge.”
