Lara Dutta and Mahesh Bhupathi love story

The two celebrities became closer in London when she was there for the shoot of her 2010 movie Housefull. Bhupathi spent three weeks in London before leaving for his US tour. “He ended up spending three weeks in London. I went out and celebrated his birthday with his friends and his family. I was the only one who was invited, so that should have rung some alarm bells in my head. But by then I thought he was rather cute and I had heard he was sort of available and I was single, so we sort of took a chance,” Dutta narrated.

After reports of Lara Dutta and Mahesh Bhupathi dating each other came out, some speculated her to be the reason behind his divorce from his then-wife Shvetha. But Dutta clarified that she “didn’t know Mahesh all through his marriage”. She said, “I was nowhere on the scene when the split happened. When I met him, I knew he was legally not divorced but there was no baggage that he brought with it.”

Mahesh Bhupathi proposed Lara Dutta at 2 am

Lara Dutta got proposed for marriage by Bhupathi twice as the first time, he didn’t carry a ring with him because he was unsure about the actor’s response. “We were at two separate political dos and at some point in time we decided that we would meet up in the evening. It was almost 2 am and we were watching a little bit of television before falling asleep. Mahesh turned around and asked, ‘Are you going to marry me?’ I looked at him and said, ‘Yeah, eventually, I guess.’ He said, ‘No, I am not asking you hypothetically, I am asking you.’ I was like where is my ring, where is the bended knee, what is this? He said, ‘I didn’t want to get a ring in case you were to say no,'” Dutta narrated. However, Bhupathi made up for a boring proposal. He proposed to his ladylove in New York. Dutta shared, “He proposed while we were in New York at the US Open. It was really sweet. Mahesh is not about drama and overtures of love. I was taken out to an Italian restaurant and we were engaged in New York.