Riteish Deshmukh and Lara Dutta have shared a great camaraderie ever since they worked together in Do Knot Disturb and Housefull. No wonder then that Riteish finds it perfectly safe to tease Lara mercilessly. Lara’s DVD release and upcoming nuptials to tennis star Mahesh Bhupati are the latest fodder for Riteish’s jokes.
He was recently overheard telling Lara at an event, “Yeh kasrat toh theek hai, ab shaadi ke kasrat ke liye taiyaar ho jaao!” To her credit, Lara laughed off Riteish’s “advice”.
A friend of the two actors revealed, “This is just the way they relate to each other. Riteish is a prankster, but Lara always takes his jests very sportingly.”
Jokes notwithstanding, fitness freak Lara has also inspired Mahesh to take up yoga. She recently said, “Mahesh also does yoga. We introduced him to it. Now he has got all sorts of paraphernalia like bands that help him be as flexible as he can. He even carries them around when he’s travelling.”