/> The last year or so has been a living hell for television star Eijaz Khan. While dealing with impossible schedules and trying to balance a number of soaps' simultaneous shootings, Eijaz also had to deal with a hysterical female fan who claims she's pregnant with Eijaz's child!

Shudders the busy actor, "I don't want to give her any importance or publicity by mentioning her name in print, or even talking about her at all. In fact I'd rather let the matter rest and hope it dies a quiet death."

On some persuasion Eijaz opens up on the sensitive issue of fans as stalkers. "I'm no stranger to attention. Kavyanjali has gone off air and I've Kya Hoga Nimmo Ka on air. But strangely it's the earlier serial that people remember me by. Even now all the calls messages, e-mail and fan mail are about Kavyanjali."

Eijaz has a cell-phone number devoted only to fan calls.

That's where his current problems started. "This lady's attentions began nicely enough. But then she began to keep too close a tab on my movements. And I began to distance myself. That didn't go down well with her.

Her persistence grew to a point where she knew my exact whereabouts. She even knows my home address...a detail that even my workplace Balajee Telefilms isn't aware of."

Now the lady claims she's pregnant with Eijaz's child. "I don't know how and when I could've done that when I have never met her. She also claims I threw juice in her face at a party. I'd rather kill myself than misbehave in public, and that too with a lady."

Eijaz has no clue how to solve this, the most recent crisis in his life. "By now I've become a master of crises. I'm sure I'll find a solution."

He can take comfort in the fact that almost all popular male tv stars from Hiten Tejwani and Rohit Roy to Ronit Roy and Iqbal Khan have such obsessive fans.

"Maybe," Eijaz concedes. "But I'm passing through a critical stage in my life. I'd rather not have such over-devoted fans."