Now Payal Rohatgi is dating a wrestler After making headlines for her romantic alliance with Rahul Mahajan on the reality show "Bigg Boss", actress Payal Rohatgi now reveals that she is dating wrestler Sangram Singh, whom she met on another reality show, "Survivor India". "I am dating Sangram right now. I met him on the show and the chemistry struck. He is very down-to-earth and a simple guy. In fact, he is the complete opposite of me," said Payal, who was here to promote the adventure reality show that will go on air Jan 6 on Star Plus. "I get hyper and throw tantrums, but he is much more rooted. He kept me calm during stressful times in the show. Somehow we clicked. And to be honest, I feel I lasted in the show because of him and his friendship," she added. Sangram won gold medals in wrestling in the Commonwealth Games and is also the recipient of the prestigious Arjuna Award and Rajiv Gandhi Award. Payal says Sangram was favourite among the contestants, thanks to his strong physique. "Being a wrestler, he was considered very strong. Everybody used to be after him because they knew they would need him during the tasks, till the individual challenges started," she said. Now the couple is working together in a film called "Valentines Night", being shot in the capital. "I am shooting for the project with Sangram in Delhi. It's a romantic thriller where both of us are playing lead roles," she said. "Survivor India" is the Indian version of US adventure reality show "Survivor". The show has 11 celebrity contestants and 11 commoners. Payal Rohatgi, Shilpa Agnihotri, JD Majethia, Sangram Singh, Abhinav Shukla, Karan Patel, Timmy Narang, Sylvester Rodgers a.k.a. Sylvie, Priyanka Bassi, Rajesh Khera and Munisha Khatwani are the known names in the show. Credit : santabanta.com

Payal Rohatgi: 'God is sending me to LA'

Payal Rohatgi has said that after recent casting couch and legal controversies with a number of Hindi film directors, she may relocate to the US.

The actor, who was recently seen in Dil Kabaddi opposite Irrfan Khan, responded to some of the rumours about her.

"Well, look, I felt hurt, so I acted in a certain way," she told The Times of India. "But what's really making me angry is how these directors, all men, are saying that I'm nuts, that I'm doing all this for publicity.

"I feel that God has a plan for me. That all this is part of something better that is to come my way. Lots of things are going on in my mind. I'm thinking of running off to LA."

Rohatgi, who made the transition into mainstream Hindi cinema with projects such as Corporate and 36 China Town, has recently appeared in a number of Indian reality TV shows.

The star added that - in spite of speaking out on the casting couch situation with Dibaker Bannerjee - she had received little support from her female contemporaries in Bollywood.

"Actresses in this industry do not talk to one another," she said. "No actress has called me."

Rahul’s swayamvar cheap

She usually goes with a ‘no comments’ response when enquired about Rahul Mahajan’s wedding on reality TV, but for once, Payal Rohatgi is ready to call a spade a spade. And she calls this one a “cheap show.”

“I understand reality shows are the flavour of the season, and Bigg Boss got me the kind of publicity that nothing else did. But you have to have limits to how far you can go to get what you want. This swayamvar on television looks like a very desperate bid to get money and fame,” says Payal. “The next reality show on TV will be what? A honeymoon or a child’s delivery?” she asks, apparently disgusted at the thought, and then adds, “I wouldn’t want to jeopardise my career by being part of something like this.”

That, of course, doesn’t mean that Payal has had enough of reality TV. She almost agreed to do another reality show - one being made on the backdrop of a village - but backed out later. And she’s now training her sight on Bollywood. “I know television is a strong medium today but I want to grow as a film actor,” she says. “Also, doing TV is very strenuous. It takes a toll on you. I did one show in 2008 (Bigg Boss Season 2) and spent the whole of 2009 recouping from it,” she laughs. “On the other hand, movies have their own pace and time, you know, they have more substantive roles to offer to an actor.”

And the movie she will be giving her time to requires her to get into the shoes of a television journalist. Payal doesn’t want to say too much too soon and would rather wait for the movie to go on the floor before talking about it, but she does tell us that the film is being made around 26/11 and shows “how journalists need to control their emotions even at such precarious times and yet work to secure TRPs for their channels.”

And while she doesn’t feel she needs to do too much homework - having seen enough TV journalists in her life - for this role, she does take acting seriously. And there’s reason to believe that. With some free time on hand, she has signed up for theatre workshops with Quasar Padamsee - Dolly and Alyque Padamsee’s son. “I thought it would help me improve my acting skills,” she shares.

Hot Payal Rohatgi was a man

Despite having established her name in the professional world, actress Payal Rohatgi often experiences ups and downs in her personal life.

Like any other girl, Payal too wishes to be the apple of her father’s eyes. She yearns for a happy and candid relationship with her father. But as destiny would have it, this father-daughter relationship ends up having a major communication gap.

Her optimism in life took Payal Rohatgi to an avenue where she could explore and probably find out a possible solution towards improving her bonding with her father. She thus, decided to take trip back into her past life with Dr.Trupti Jayin on Imagine’s ‘Raaz Pichhle Janam Ka’.

Our source from the sets informs, “During regression, Payal saw herself as a married man named Albert Post somewhere in South America. Albert lived with his wife Maria and son John.

He also had a best friend who was quite close to his entire family. Theirs’ was a happy family and everything was like a fairy tale until an unpleasant incident occurred, involving Albert, his wife and his best friend. This incident leaves Albert disturbed, betrayed and tormented for life.”

Post regression, Payal states, “I have a very loving relationship with all in my family, except my father. After undergoing regression, I don’t blame him or myself for the distance between us anymore.

Instead, I am thankful to Imagine for giving me this opportunity through which I came across one of the reasons for my disturbed relationship with my father. I will definitely go back to Dr. Trupti Jayin to undergo further treatment in order to improve and mend my relationship with him.”

To know the truth that lies beneath Payal Rohatgi’s past tune into Imagine’s 'Raaz Pichhle Janam Ka' tonight!