Ranbir Kapoor, Bharti Malhotra
Ranbir Kapoor, Bharti Malhotra

Ranbir Kapoor‘s break up with Katrina Kaif was the first big news of 2016. While the former couple maintained silence on the matter, not too long ago, a new set of reports about Ranbir started to rock the internet. They stated that apparently, Ranbir had moved on and was dating a Delhi-based makeup artist Bharti Malhotra. However, according to her interview in TOI, all these reports are baseless.

She said:

Last week, I got a call from a friend who asked me if I was dating Ranbir Kapoor. Like any other girl with no connection to Ranbir or even Bollywood, I thought someone was playing a prank on me. Then I got to know that I was being tagged as ‘Ranbir’s new Delhi-based girlfriend’ by a news channel. I started reading the internet reports and was shocked. Earlier, there were reports saying that Ranbir was spotted with some ‘mystery girl’, and then suddenly, I was suspected to be that ‘mystery girl’ and my Facebook pictures were used with those reports. I have no clue who started this or how this was reported without anyone trying to reach out to me. I did make a few calls to some publications to have the online reports removed. I told them that I am not dating Ranbir Kapoor, but it was of little help. Some websites removed the link, but I realised that some portals were adding more juicy, false details to the dating rumour. I did not know how to stop that. Everyone started talking about it, but I have had enough of this.

Read her entire interview here.