Athiya Shetty on her relationship with Sooraj Pancholi

As industry kids Athiya Shetty and Sooraj Pancholi gear up for their Bollywood debut, their have, as expected, been a few whispers of the duo being more than just good friends. ��Shetty has spoken of her rapport with Pancholi and confesses that while she loves him as a person, she would not object to him dating someone else.

Speaking to��DNA India, Shetty said, “Sooraj is extremely shy. ��You have to talk to him to make him open up and feel comfortable. ��Once he’s comfortable, he’s the funniest person around… I love him as a person and a friend. ��It’s so weird when two newcomers are doing a film together people automatically believe and feel that they are in love but it’s genuinely not like that. ��He’s my best friend today. ��We tell each other everything… but we are not in love. ��I am absolutely fine with him dating someone else. ��That’s how our relationship is… I would never want to ruin it by getting into anything.”

Shetty and Pancholi will be making their acting debut together with Salman Khan’s ‘Hero’. ��Directed by Nikhil Advani, the film is a remake of Subhash Ghai’s 1983 hit of the same name and releases on September 11th.

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