MUMBAI: She is not your regular Bollywood heroine. She began her innings in Hindi film industry with Anurag basu’s Barfi! in 2012, and in the last five years, she has worked in only a handful of films. If her Bollywood choices has kept her news, her love life too has kept her in news.
Unlike her contemporaries, she doesn’t like to keep her relationship under the wraps or hide behind the ‘just friends’ tag. The 29-year-old frequently posts pictures with Australian photographer Andrew Kneebone, who is a photographer by profession.
While the actor loves posting pictures with her beau, she is not too comfortable talking about their relationship in public. In an interview to Mid-Day, Ileana said, “I’ve been working in the industry for 11 years. It’s taken me a lot to understand the working culture. We actors get a lot of love, but at times, we get double the amount of negativity for no reason whatsoever. There are times when the comments become nasty. It’s not fair for him to go through it. He is a normal person and is entitled to his privacy. I have had people coming and telling me that he is not an Indian and I find it stupid. He is someone who has been special to me and I don’t want to be in a situation where my family is targetted for no fault of theirs.”
Ileana, who will be next seen in Baadshaho, is often been asked if she is planning to get hitched anytime soon. Ileana, who is happy to be in a live-in relationship with her beau, told the daily, “I think marriage and live-in relationship aren’t really different. It is just a piece of paper that separates the two. Marriage is great for a lot of people. It changes a lot of things between two people, but I don’t look at it in that way. My commitment towards him is not going to change.”
On the work front, she will be seen romancing Ajay Devgn in Milin Luthria’s Baadshaho. The film is set to hit the screens on September 1.
