I never met rape victim Reshma: Sanjay Leela Bhansali

I never met rape victim Reshma: Sanjay Leela Bhansali
Thursday, May 25, 2006 15:14 IST
By Santa Banta News Network
By Subhash K Jha

After a shocking rape incident where two men Sunil Morpani and Suresh Krishnani were accused of repeatedly raping her, South African model 'Reshma Khan' (whose real name is with-held due to the rape trial) seems to have allowed ambition and fantasy to get the better of her rational judgement.

In an interview to a South African newspaper she's quoted as saying that Sanjay Leela Bhansali has offered her a role and that the dream-director, ready to go on the floors with his Ranbir-Sonam Kapoor romance Saavariya, is "keen" to work with her.

However Sanjay Bhansali seems totally oblivious of his own 'keen' desire to work with the apparently distraught model.

"Who's Reshma Khan?" he asks in the middle of hundreds of activities related to Saavariya. "I haven't even heard of her, let alone met her."

When enlightened about the gruesome nature of her case in Mumbai, Sanjay baulks, "Oh yeah I had heard about her. But I've never offered her any role. Please! What role will I offer her?"

This categorical disclaimer puts a question mark on Ms Khan's other tall claim in the interview, that she's dating "a top Bollywood actor."

Says a skeptical young actor, "There's no film by Sanjay Leela Bhansali, no top actor dating her. These are all figments of her imagination. Poor thing."

Incidentally Vikram Bhatt intends to make a film on Reshma Khan's alleged gang-rape. However he has no plans of casting Reshma in the lead.
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