Lakshmi Rai has been in the news and though they're not exactly for the right reasons, she would yet have made the ladies jealous. Lakshmi, it was supposed, even met MS Dhoni in Chennai at the hotel where he put up for the Test match that concluded yesterday. But alas, as it often happens with news that the rumour mills generate, Lakshmi vehemently denies everything."No. I didn't meet him during this tour since I was busy shooting elsewhere," says Lakshmi, who claims that the rumours of linkups with Dhoni had died down, only to resurface with the test match being played at Chennai. So, there's nothing at all? "The rumours are baseless," she categorically states, explaining, "They started when I participated in a couple of events with Dhoni during the IPL campaign. There were further whisperings as he came for my birthday party."
Lakshmi accepts that she and Dhoni are "just good friends," but denies anything beyond that. "We struck a chord during the IPL, but just like any other friends, we don't need to keep in touch every day since we understand each other's professional commitments," she says. On the same breath, she denies link-up with speedster Sreeshanth to. "We met for a photo shoot for a Malayalam magazine but the some people selectively used the photos to substantiate their groundless speculations," she clarifies. ---(TeluguDreams)
