Manisha: I've gifted myself a yellow Volkswagen Beetel

Manisha Koirala

Coping with life as a wife in Kathmandu has been the most challenging role of Manisha Koirala's career. Then on top of it there are all these rumours of trouble in the marital paradise.

According to close friends Manisha is doing her best to work things out with her husband Samrat. The problem, say friends, is the joint family. Manisha is trying hard to blend into Samrat's family.

Says a source, “While it's been easy for Manisha to adjust being a wife, blending into a her husband's family has been far more difficult. But she's trying. Manisha desperately wants to make the marriage work. ”

To make the hours seem less stretched-out in the soporific town of Kathmandu Manisha has taken to painting. Now just months after her marriage, Manisha has become a voracious painter. She spends a major part of the day at the anvil.

Says Manisha, “It all started as just another form of self-expression. When I liked the feel of the brush against the canvas I decided to get more professional about it. ”

Manisha got her self a tutor. “Can you believe it? My painting guru is from Maharashtra! So I go all the way from Mumbai to Nepal and get myself a Marathi teacher for painting. ”

Now Manisha is keenly hooked to painting. “It's more than a hobby now. It's a growing passion. I don't know where it will take me. But then I've always followed my heart. ”

Manisha will soon have her first painting exhibition as soon she is confident of holding her own.

Just back from Goa where she represented her first Malayalam film Electra at the film festival, Manisha is hungering to get back to the limelight. “I guess once an actor always an actor. I got an overwhelming response to Electra in Goa. It's a very different role. I had to play a mother and a woman who has an extra-marital affair. I was advised not to do it. But now I am so happy with the way the film has shaped up. ”

Now she's persuading the director Shyam Prasad to remake the same film into Hindi.

Back home in Kathmandu Manisha has gifted herself a brand new car.

Laughs the actress, “I'm so happy with the way my film has been received in Goa I've gifted myself a yellow Volkswagen Beetel car. ”

Manisha Koirala Divorce Rumours

Manisha Koirala Divorce Rumours

Bollywood diva Manisha Koirala, who triggered a storm of gossip about an impending divorce following a hasty online comment, says things were blown out of proportion and she is still happily married to her Nepali entrepreneur husband.

The 40-year-old acclaimed actor, who is attending the International Film Festival of India that kicked off in Goa Monday, found herself in the eye of a storm both at home and in India after she posted a comment on her Facebook account last week, saying she was mulling divorce after only four months of marriage. The remark, made after what she says was a minor spat, made the social network grapevine go into a tizzy, fuelling speculation that the actor was already ruing her marriage to Samrat Dahal, a Nepali entrepreneur five years younger and a non entity till she tied the knot with him in a three day wedding extravaganza in Kathmandu in June.

Before leaving for Goa, Manisha, who is said to be planning to make a film in Nepal with her fellow actors in Bollywood, Jackie Shroff, Danny Denzongpa and Gulshan Grover, told the Kantipur daily that she had temporarily shifted to her parents’ residence in Kathmandu because she was unwell and not due to any marital estrangement. “I was born in Biratnagar (a sunny town near the Indian border) and lived in Mumbai,” Manisha said. “So I find it cold in Kathmandu.” Manisha, who said she was suffering from cold, opted to stay with her parents for a few days as her husband was also out of town, the report said. Manisha’s family Tuesday also denied the rumours that her marriage was on the rocks. Her father and former minister Prakash Koirala told the local media that a lovers’ tiff had been blown out of proportion.

“The news is baseless,” the former politician said. “Manisha has always been in the public eye and people are interested in her life. Previously, there were speculations about her marriage; now, it is her divorce.” Manisha, who deleted the controversial post soon afterwards, added a clarification, saying she was “super happy” with her husband. “I was angry when I wrote that post,” she said. “Sometimes I just react and write silly things.” Besides her marriage, Manisha is now also working on resuming her career in Nepal’s film industry, shelved almost two decades ago when she left Nepal after just one film to start an illustrious innings in Bollywood with Subhash Ghai’s blockbuster film “Saudagar”. Her comeback Nepali film “Dharma”, where she plays wife to Nepal’s reigning star Rajesh Hamal, is set to be released this winter. The film has been preceded by her re entry in the ad world where she began promoting Home TV, a direct to home satellite channel service.

Manisha Koirala considering a separation from her hubby Samrat?

Manisha Koirala

Manisha Koirala considering a separation from her hubby Samrat?: Just a few months after her marriage to the Nepalese businessman Samrat Dahal, things don’t seem to be hunky dory in Manisha Koirala’s wedded life.

Manisha almost sent shock waves through the social networking world on Friday by posting a message on her Facebook page that hinted that she was considering a separation from Samrat whom she married in June this year. She also added that she feared her decision might hurt her parents.

But Manisha perhaps had second thoughts after posting the message and deleted it after a few hours. She was probably apprehensive over all the media hoopla her message might create.

Manisha is quoted as saying that she was “angry” when she wrote the post. She also admitted that sometimes she overreacts and writes “silly things”.

So does that mean she’s happy with Samrat? Or is her marriage on the rocks.

Is Manisha Koirala files a Divorse Petition?

Is Manisha Koirala files a Divorse Petition?

Manisha Koirala is just married for five months and what she has posted on the social networking sites has taken everyone by suprise. The actress wrote that she wants divorce from her husband Samrat Dahal. But what sound strange that few hours after she posted her thought, she deleted it.

But Manya least have the knowledge that once anything been uploaded on the site, it reaches to the millions in a fraction of second. Last Friday, she has posted the silly thing on Facebook that she is planning to get divorce and hoped her parents wouldn’t mind her decision.

Concerned friends and relatives started to console and enquired what went wrong in five months of their marriage.

Now the question is why Manisha deleted the post. Some say that she had realized her wrong and deleted it.

Friends
close to Manisha brush off the rumours. "She is very happy with Samrat (Dahal). Like most normal couples, they must have had a fight and she must have put up the post.

She's very emotional and whenever she's upset, she reveals her feelings. It's nothing serious and by now, I am sure Manya must be regretting putting up the post which is why she deleted it," says a friend.

Koirala, who is currently in Mumbai for a few days commented about behaving childish, "I am super happy (with Samrat).

I was angry when I wrote that post. Sometimes I just react and write silly things ¦ I deleted the post because I realised that it would be taken seriously."