After years of will they-won't they, Saif and Kareena finally are – next year. After a turbulent 2011, in which they appeared to have divergent thoughts about getting engaged (on Koffee With Karan), fought off breakup rumours and dealt with the death of Saif's father, Tiger Pataudi, Bollywood's most loved up couple will finally walk down the aisle after the release of their next film, Agent Vinod.
It wasn't that long ago that Deepika Padukone was trashing ex-boyfriend Ranbir Kapoor on national television, but this was one broken heart that mended easily, finding the quick fix in Kingfisher scion, Sidhartha Mallya. A heartbeat later, Deepika and Sid were out and about town, going everywhere together, finally sealing their love with a very public kiss, right after the Mallya owned Royal Challengers Bangalore beat Kolkata Knight Riders at Eden Gardens.
2011 was the year that Kate Middleton went from being Waity Katie to the future Queen Of England. After almost 10 years of dating – including a breakup period – Kate married her Prince in a fairytale wedding in Westminster Abbey, watched on millions of television sets around the world. Later, cheered on by the crowd below, William kissed his new bride on the balcony of Buckingham Palace – just like his parents had, so many years ago. But this time there was an encore.
Few would disagree that the year at the box office belonged to Vidya Balan. But even as she blazed as Southern siren Silk Smitha on screen, off it Vidya had quietly begun a romance with UTV top man Siddharth Roy Kapoor. They were spotted holidaying together in Goa and there were even rumours of a secret wedding – that Vidya was quick to deny – but it was clear that The Dirty Picture star was very much a woman in love.
Movie magic met big business when Telugu superstar Chiranjeevi's son, Ram Charan Teja, got engaged to long time girlfriend Upasana Kamineni, of the Apollo hospitals family, on December 1 in Hyderabad. They will be married next year and there is absolutely no doubt that the wedding will be the stuff dreams are made of, if their glittering engagement was anything to go by.
It's been a year of romance for Chirnajeevi's family. Nephew and star Allu Arjun broke many female hearts when he married fiancée Sneha Reddy in a high profile wedding in March. Superstars Nagarjuna, Mahesh Babu and Shriya Saran were in attendance, among other big names. There was instant nationwide curiosity about Sneha, also from a business family like Upasana, who was kept under wraps until the engagement was announced.
2011 began with a bang for Imran Khan as he married longtime girlfriend Avantika in a private ceremony attended by family and friends in January. In February, uncle Aamir hosted a grand reception for them with a guest list that included big names and big money. Avantika turned out to be Imran's lucky charm as 2011 turned out to be a good year movie-wise with Delhi Belly and Mere Brother Ki Dulhan.
On screen, Riteish and Genelia have had a subdued year. Off it, it's been momentous. The lovebirds will be married next year, an announcement that was followed by the rather bizarre claim from a pundit that Genelia had already been married for real to John Abraham on the sets of their movie Force. That little hiccup apart, the couple are sure to be married in style as suits the son of a former chief minister of Maharashtra.
The world got a whiff of romance brewing when Liz Hurley and Shane Warne began posting increasingly risqué and indiscreet messages to each other on Twitter. Sure enough, a short while later Liz was revealed to have separated from husband Arun Nayyar and Warney from his long suffering wife of many years. Divorce followed and there are now wedding rumours for this couple.
Fashion's party girl has a track record of dating the wrong man, most notably Johnny Depp before he reformed and settled down and drug addled rocker Pete Doherty. But Kate Moss finally cleaned up and married The Kills guitarist Jamie Hince this year in July in a simple country style wedding. Kate, as always, was a style star in vintage John Galliano – a choice of designer that raised a few eyebrows given his fall from grace after a public anti-Semitic rant in Paris. Wedding guests were a mix of fashion insiders and musicians.
