The rumour mill is abuzz again about how Indian
actress Sushmita Sen will marry former Pakistani cricketer Wasim Akram later
this month in Dubai.Reports of their wedding started doing the
rounds soon after a website reported that the former Miss Universe is dating
the Pakistani skipper.
This isn’t the first time the two have been
linked together. A few years ago, there were talks about how the two were
dating after hosting a TV reality show together.The marriage talks have only recently surfaced,
after Sush fuelled it with a declaration on twitter about getting hitched by
the end of this year.“Yes, I do plan to get married next year. I
think it is time. I have made everybody wait a lot,” her tweet had read.She had even added; “I am taking my time to say
yes, but once I say I do, it will be for keeps as I firmly believe in the
institution of marriage.”
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| Sushmita Sen and Wasim Akram |
The 36-year-old actress has two adopted
daughters and said the girls were eager to see her married.“Alisah is too young but Renee is quite
comfortable with me being single. She would like to see me as a bride one day,
but she does not push me for it. She is 13 and we are more like friends; she
understands me as a woman now. It’s only when she has skipped homework that I
become the mother,” she told Indian media.
Although media reports claim Sushmita is
marrying Akram, we hear the cricketer is actually living in with his Australian
model-girlfriend in Karachi.Her spokesperson, however, denied the reports.
“It's not true. In fact, Sushmita is having a show in Mumbai on April 24. I
don't think she can attend an event in Mumbai and plan her wedding
simultaneously.”Some insiders even speculate that Sushmita and Akram will say
‘I do’ in Dubai because of the political implications that their marriage will
evoke.
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| Wasim Akram and Sushmita Sen |
In fact, after tying the knot, Indian tennis
star Sania Mirza and Pakistani cricketer Shoaib Malik have made Dubai their
home because of the same reasons.
Sushmita boasts of a long list of boyfriends,
with filmmaker Vikram Bhatt, Mudassar Aziz, 23-year-old business man Imtiyaz
Khatri and actor Randeep Hooda featuring on the list. On many occasions, each
link-up had almost culminated in matrimony.
Earlier, she had expressed her desire to have a
lavish church wedding. "It is my childhood dream to have a Christian-style
wedding, just like the fairy tales. I always imagine myself as a bride who will
wear a gown, with a long train and veil. I find the idea of walking down the
aisle and then being handed to the groom by the father very romantic," she
had said.
