AdvertisingShared a source with, “The makers plan to get the better halves of the two most talked about contestants Dipika and Sreesanth. Shoaib and Bhuvneshwari will, in a way, try to justify their partners’ actions. The two will also share some pearls of wisdom with Dipika and Sreesanth. They will also be interacting with host Salman on the stage and debate about all the action in the house. If all goes well, ’s boyfriend Manish Naggdev would also join the duo on stage.”Sreesanth has been terribly upset with Dipika Kakar after she named him for eviction.
While the former cricketer did leave the house, he was directed to the secret room. Dipika, throughout the week, felt guilty and the housemates’ taunts made her feel worse.Sreesanth, on the other hand, was furious at Dipika over her actions in the house. As he witnessed events unfold in the house, Sree shared that he has lost all respect for Dipika and will never speak to her again. AdvertisingEarlier this week when Sreesanth entered the house, he remained cold towards Dipika. He even went on to incite other housemates against the actor. But Sreesanth had a complete flip in a day and supported Dipika in the captaincy task. Angered by Dipika loss, Sreesanth spat on Deepak’s name on the board.
His actions made the housemates go completely against him.It would be interesting to see how Salman Khan reacts to the same, and what would he have to say to Shoaib and Bhuvneshwari. Catch all the fun this weekend on Bigg Boss 12 Weekend Ka Vaar.
Having been freed of match-fixing charges last week, the two-year ordeal is finally over for cricketer S Sreesanth. Is getting ready to start life all over again with the one person who stood by him through the episode – his then-girlfriend and now wife Bhuvneshwari Kumari, a member of a Rajasthani royal family. In their first ever joint interview, Sreesanth and Bhuvneshwari Kumari aka Nayan recall how they got through the darkest days of their life together.The first year of marriage is usually the rosiest for couples, but for you, it was the most difficult time of your life perhaps. Bhuvneshwari: Our difficulties started even before we got married! The wedding was fixed for September 2013 and I had come down to Hyderabad in May, where Sree had a match, to meet him and discuss the wedding plans. I was still asleep when I suddenly started getting calls 7am, asking me to switch on the TV.
I thought it must be some rumour about the marriage, but what I saw – the news of his arrest – left me shattered. I couldn’t believe it. I kept changing channels, but it was the same news all over.
I felt as though my life was falling apart. The first thing I did was call up his mom and sister to see if they were okay. Later, I spoke to my father.What made you go ahead with the wedding when things around you were falling apart?Bhuvneshwari: They were worried after the case cropped up. My father asked me whether I wanted to go ahead with the wedding – he wasn’t so sure if I should.
I had decided by then, so I told him, ‘If this issue hadn’t happened, I would have considered what you are saying, but now that this has happened, I want to go ahead with the wedding. I wanted to prove to Sree and his family that I wasn’t after the cricketer that he is, I genuinely wanted to be with him.’I was sure that somebody who was so giving and big-hearted will never cheat anybody.
I never believed that any of the charges against him were true; not at any point, not even for a moment! Even if God himself had come down and told me that Sree was guilty, I wouldn’t have believed it.
Nobody who knows him well will believe it. Even if he goes for two or three inaugurations, he can make more money than the amount they claim he made in the spot fixing. He is the most amazing human being I have ever come across. People have seen only the aggressive side of Sree, not the real side, which is that of someone who is very giving.I always tell Sree, your thoughts become your reality. There were times when he didn’t get bail and people told us that these things drag on for 10-15 years. But inside, I had faith. I thought it will all get over in a year.
It took two years, but it did get over.Did you visit Sreesanth in jail?Bhuvneshwari: I wanted to, but I got a message from Sree that he didn’t want me to see him in that state. I didn’t want to do anything to make him feel worse. I was there with him mentally and emotionally.Sreesanth: If not for her support, I don’t know if I would have survived the ordeal. I didn’t know if I would play again. I felt like ending my life. I did think about my mom and dad, but they have three more children and I told myself they might survive even if I’m not around.
Then, her father told me ‘Nayan still wants to marry you.’ It felt like a breath of fresh air. After that, I couldn’t think of leaving this world without marrying her. I got to know later that while I was in prison, she was sleeping in the kitchen, to go through what I was going through in prison.It felt like the movie Roja to me. Is my life, but still, she made me believe in true love, to have immense faith, a kind of blind belief, at times, to believe in miracles. She stood by me and I have no words to describe my emotions.
For me, it’s Mata Pita Guru Patni Devam.Did your family oppose your decision to marry Sreesanth?Bhuvneshwari: My dad asked if I would be able to adjust to the ‘coconut oil’ food. Maybe you are just charmed, the reality will be different, he said. I was sure, and my would-be mother-in-law had promised me that I would get food cooked with olive oil.Sreesanth: Now she loves food cooked in coconut oil!You are nine years younger than Sreesanth. When did you know he was the one?Bhuvneshwari: When we first met, I was 16. He used to say he would marry me when I grew up.
Initially, I didn’t take it seriously, but he kept telling me the same thing whenever we had a conversation. We were talking on the phone, and after a year or two, I had deeply fallen in love with him.Sreesanth: Whenever my family brought up the topic of marriage, I’d joke that I’d only marry a princess. But I didn’t know Nayan was royalty until later. I fell in love with her in 2010, when she was older and more mature. My idea of a perfect couple was Anjali bhabhi and Sachin (Tendulkar); she would do anything for him.
I felt Nayan could be that to me.That must have been some love story. Where did it all begin?Bhuvneshwari: He was invited to my school as the chief guest. I was not a huge fan of Sree then.Sreesanth: She is not even a fan of cricket, if you ask her today what is LBW, she wouldn’t know.Bhuvneshwari: The next time I saw him was at a pavilion during a match later that year. He wasn’t playing and was in the dugout. He smiled at me, and my friends were like, he is smiling at you.
I said, ‘Who is he?’ They said, ‘He is an Indian team cricket player!’That night we met at the dinner after the match. That is when we exchanged numbers. Actually I didn’t take his number for myself, I took it for my cousin who was a huge fan.
But then I ended up talking to him and we became friends. I still have that piece of paper with me. All this was around 2007.Sreesanth, were you always serious about marrying her?Sreesanth: My only thought initially was that she’s a very pretty girl. I didn’t think anything else.Bhuvneshwari: At one point, we had a misunderstanding and stopped talking for a year.
I was still a teenager then and I would get angry when he didn’t answer my calls. It felt like he was talking only when he felt like it.Sreesanth: I was playing for India, for God’s sake! (laughs) Our love story was a 1942 A Love Story kind, as we never met each other again until 2010 or so, and even then we weren’t alone. I would have loved to meet her alone, but then that’s their sanskar (laughs). So it was like an arranged love marriage.
But I remember my teammates asking me who she was, and I said, ‘My girlfriend. She is the one I am going to get married to.’ I think she is the lucky charm of our family too.Sreesanth, so has this episode toned you down or changed you in any way?That’s for others to decide. With age comes wisdom. I am a father now, and it’s my responsibility to make things easier for my daughter. However, when you are talking about aggression, it is something which is a result of true love and obsession for me.
I am obsessed with the game and my family. If anyone tries to harm my wife or daughter, I might turn aggressive. But I have turned spiritual over the years and silence is the speech of the spiritual seeker.How’s fatherhood treating you?Fatherhood is the best thing that happened to me. The moment I see my daughter’s face, my stress just disappears and I forget everything else. Now, I enjoy doing everything that fatherhood brings – from changing nappies to feeding and playing with her.
I love the way she has begun to react to certain things and people.What next for Sreesanth?I’m not saying this for sympathy, but I can visualise my wife and my daughter in the stands cheering for me; my daughter in the Indian colours.