Lara Dutta Ties The Knot

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MUMBAI, INDIA (GaeaTimes.com)- Men all over the world have one more reason to feel depressed as Bollywood bombshell Lara Dutta has got engaged to tennis star Mahesh Bhupathi. The couple decided to make it official last week in New York where Mahesh Bhupathi was playing in the US Open and the ‘Blue’ star was attending a photo-shoot. The news was confirmed by Mahesh Bhupathi through a tweet where he said that he and Lara Dutta have officially got engaged to each other.

The couple had earlier denied the rumors of seeing each other to the media especially after the cheating allegations by Mahesh Bhupathi’s wife. There were rumors that they were secretly seeing each other and wanted to keep the news hush-hush till Mahesh Bhupathi’s divorce came through. Lara Dutta too had her share of media link-ups and serious relationships. Following the much talked about split with Kelly Dorjee, the beauty queen was linked to Bollywood actor Dino Morea. Only recently, she was seen in public with Mahesh Bhupathi and most reports suggest that it was after the divorce was settled.

Lara Dutta has starred in various Hindi films after her win in the Miss Universe Pageant in 2000. In recent years she has acted in several Bollywood comedies like ‘House Full’ where she was paired opposite Ritesh Deshmukh and ‘Blue’ where she played the wife of Sanjay Dutt. She will be seen in the next installment of ‘Don’ which stars Shah Rukh Khan. Mahesh Bhupathi formed the legendary partnership of Bhupathi-Paes with Indian tennis ace Leander Paes. The two have now split and play with different partners for men’s doubles.