Former `Bigg Boss 16` contestant Soundarya Sharma is making headlines these days about her relationship with the director Sajid Khan. However, she termed all those talks as rumours, adding they are not dating each other.

Soundarya said: "I`m deeply hurt and disappointed by these false stories linking me with Sajid. I have always admired him as a friend, mentor, and elder brother. It`s upsetting that even in this day and age, women are subject to link-up stories. It`s time that society stops looking at us through the narrow prism of who we are dating and focuses on what we are accomplishing."