The four-year relationship between the filmmaker and the actress ended on a sorry note after all their collaborations bombed at the BO
The wise men say it is always a bad idea to mix business with pleasure. Four years and seven box-office disasters later, Ram Gopal Varma may have finally realised that, as he edited out a chapter from his life called Nisha Kothari.
The 27-year-old actress had beeped bright on Ramu’s radar, just at the time the spark called Antara Mali had faded. The besotted director had cast the ‘talentless’ actress as his leading lady in several less-than-ordinary films that outlined his decline including James, Go, Shiva, Darna Zaroori Hai and the film that will haunt him forever, Ram Gopal Varma Ki Aag.
Nisha had disappeared from the screens after that, only to make a brief and highly embarrassing appearance in the horror-comedy Agyaat.
While we don’t know if the relationship was tied to the box-office windows, a source close to Varma says, “Nisha was frequently seen in Ramu’s company until recently. She is not with him anymore.” The duo was frequently spotted in the same car in Juhu and Andheri.
When contacted, Varma told Mirror that he has not seen Kothari since Agyaat and threw us a rhetorical question, “And when were Nisha and I together?” However, his denial is no surprise as the filmmaker has never admitted to his relationship with Nisha, who had briefly changed her name to Priyanka, on her mentor’s insistence.
Nisha tired to shrug off the episode. “I am an actress, Ramu is a director. I shall work with him if and when he casts me in his movies. Couldn’t you guys think of anything more controversial than this to call me up? Honestly, I don’t want to say anything more.”
A source close to Varma said, “Ramu and Nisha’s rift widened irrevocably after Agyaat bombed at the box-office in 2009. Recently, they decided that enough is enough.” We presume so did the audiences.
Source: Bangalore Mirror
