Was Kangna's split with her beau just a publicity stunt?

A source from the industry says, "Kangna revealed that she had a UK-based doctor as her boyfriend on Simi Garewal's chat show about a year back. After that there was no mention of him for a long time. Finally his pictures with Kangna were splashed in a daily revealing the mystery man that she was dating.

Kangna Ranaut with Nicholas Lafferty

The ‘boyfriend' was supposed to be in Mumbai for a month, as he is a doctor and had finally got some time off from his busy schedule. However once he went back, there was no mention of him and now finally there comes news that the two have have broken up as he wanted to settle down while she wanted to pursue her acting career."

The source also points out that there has been no official statement from either Kangna and absolutely nothing has been known about the ‘said boyfriend'.u00a0The million-dollar question now is was the boyfriend for real or was it just a cover-up for Kangna to stay away from her two controversial former boyfriends? A source elaborates, "She is an established actress now and has proven to everyone that she can deliver. After Tanu Weds Manu, she is at the peak of her career and has some promising line up of films coming up.u00a0

However she was constantly in news for her controversies rather than the good work that she was doing in her films.u00a0Her previous two relationships with Aditya Panscholi and Adhyayan Suman came haunting her time and again and that's why she chose to bring in her ‘new boyfriend' in the picture." With the media now busy covering her new break-up, perhaps Kangna can now breathe easy and pack her past away to some dark corner of her closet...

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Incidentally, this is not the only case of mysterious boyfriends in Bollywood...

Amrita Rao was apparently dating a certain Neil Kulkarni, an NRI orthopaedic surgeon based out of San Francisco. However Rao has never brought him out in public.

Jacqueline Fernandez was said to have been dating Sheikh Hassan bin Rashid Al Khalifa, a prince from Bahrain, and that they were planning to get engaged soon. However, they broke off and she is now dating Sajid Khan.

Mallika Sherawat is said to have been dating numerous Hollywood actors and is in news time an again for her alleged link-ups. The latest is that she was caught dirty dancing with Hollywood hottie Antonio Banderas.u00a0