The Ranbir-Sonam Equation

As if we don’t see enough love-triangle dramas on screen, B-town’s newbies, Ranbir Kapoor, Deepika Padukone and Sonam Kapoor have somehow worked themselves into a very similar situation. This was first noticed at Katrina Kaif’s B’day bash, when all three were present but made a conscious effort to stay out of each other’s way.

Ranbir and Sonam grew very close to each other on the sets of Saawariya, clearly a movie that should have drilled home the fact that they weren’t meant to be actors but would’ve made it as villagers pretending to have lost their money to go home or employees at a suburban bakery. They would console each other every time Sanjay Leela Bhansali, director and total cry-baby shouted at them for their terrible acting. They were supposedly so madly in love that Sonam used to visit Ranbir at his house frequently and warm-up to father, Rishi Kapoor and dragon-mother, Neetu Singh. Isn’t that just swell.
But soon enough, Deepika dumped Yuvraj and was single again. In swooped Ranbir and bunked with her instead. And so now, it’s all awkward between the two Saawariya debutants. As usual, when contacted, Sonam Kapoor maintained a stony silence. Hint taken.