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 The 'Slumdog' team might be celebrating hard and the whole of India
might be celebrating with them, but Rohan Antao sure isn't one of them.
The man says that he hates the Oscar winning movie and won't watch it
because it ended his relationship with the film's heroine Freida Pinto.
He thinks the movie's reported off-screen romance between Freida and
her co-star Dev Patel, who is six years her junior eneded his
relationship.
Antao reportedly told the News of the World, "She ended it with me
after getting close to Dev Patel. Now everywhere I go I see them on
billboards. I am devastated. I hate the film. It wrecked my
relationship. As soon as it became a success and she started spending
all her time with Dev, she ended it."
Antao is a marketing executive, said the two met six years ago and that
he proposed to her in 2007. Some even claim that they were married in
2007 but 'Slumdog Millionare' turned their lives around.
He's said, "The film bosses didn't want her to be engaged. It would
affect the whole emphasis of the film, the love story. I had no say in
it. I was kind of forced to lie to director Danny Boyle about their
relationship when they met at a party. He was very down to earth, but I
had to lie all evening and say I was just Freida's boyfriend."
After seeing Freida with Dev at the Toronto Film Festival last
September, Antao said he sent Dev an angry text message saying: 'You do
know she is engaged, don't you?" but he never responded.
He's said, 'I feel bitter towards Dev. If you are engaged to someone,
the last thing you want to be thinking about is whether Dev Patel is
telling her how wonderful she is. She is infatuated with Dev. I don't
know if they were having a sexual relationship but if I came face to
face with him I would have things to say. I wish her success in her
career, but I can't watch the Oscars, and I don't want to watch the
film - it wrecked our love.'
This one sure is scorned lover. We wonder what the effect of his words
is going to have on ambitious Freida who's flying high and not thinking
about anything negative right now.
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