“Meera Jasmine told Pritviraj through a song...”Ishtamallada… Enikkishtamallada…(see pic) in Swapnakoodu, which went on to be last year's biggest chartbuster.



But in real life the petite heroine is having a ball with Pritvi and the grapevine is abuzz with rumours about the lovebirds holding hands and speaking in whispers on the sets. It all started during the making of Swapnakoodu in Pondicherry and Vienna. Earlier Pritvi who has a Casanova reputation was linked to Navya Nair who had fallen out with Meera during the Gramaphone days.

In Pondicherry, Pritvi and Meera became close to each other as she found a person to confide as her personal life was going through turmoil. She was alleged to have relationship with a Chennai based top police officer and later with Shoukat, son of a politician and producer of her art house film, Padom Onnu Oru Vilapam and finally she was cooling off with Lohithadas, her mentor and godfather.

In Kozhikode during the making of Ammakilikoodu, all hell broke lose when Meera was calling up Pritvi on his mobile and leaving desperate SMS messages while he was shooting with Navya. Critics say that the chemistry between Navya and Pritvi was missing in Ammakilikoodu and the film turned out to one of the biggest duds of the year.

And when Lohithadas decided to make Chakram, Meera went out of the way by cancelling the shoot of Joot, her Tamil film and rushed to Pollachi to spend more time with Pritvi. And the unit members swear that the actress was closer to the hero than the director. Now the love birds have given bulk dates to art director Sabu Cyril’s debut directorial venture.

Many people in the industry dismiss this relationship as another of “Meera’s Mad Infatuations” and Pritvi’s flirtatious nature. And will Mallika Sukumaran who is desperately trying to make a career for her son agree to this relationship? “Never” is the popular reaction. However singer Chitra Iyer who sang the song: ”Ishtamallada… Enikkishtamallada…, says that it was the involvement with which Meera emoted for the song with Pritvi on screen that made the song such a huge hit!”