July 2012 – Bollywood Blind Item

This week’s blind item by Rajeev Masand from the Open Magazine is about a well-known businessman in India. I don’t really know for sure as the tips are a bit confusing. I’m just putting my guesses below, but know first that these might not be the actual answers to these guesses.

Bollywood Blind Item

This leading, much-married industrialist maintains close friendly relations with top movie stars, and is known to offer his hospitality to Bollywood folk regularly. Some years ago, he was famously linked to a former beauty queen-turned-actress.

Now there are murmurs that he’s been taking an unusually keen interest in another stunning Hindi film actress. Not long ago, he is believed to have personally called and persuaded her to attend an ‘important’ entertainment summit in Delhi that his company was involved in. When she accepted the invitation, a huge bouquet of flowers is believed to have shown up at her doorstep. The gentleman is said to have personally instructed his top staff to look into her travel arrangements, and shortly after the actress returned from the capital having attending the event, expensive gifts were allegedly showered on her.

At the time, his staff giggled among themselves, tickled by their boss’ infatuation with the star. Now the same colleagues are convinced there’s more to it. One hears the dusky actress, who is currently enjoying a good run in the movies, has been responding to the big shot’s overtures, and is enjoying being wooed with expensive jewellery.