Can you keep our very own Veena Malik out of the news? The answer is: no. The latest regarding the sassy actress is that she is these days hunting for a ‘hero’ for one of her upcoming films The City that Never Sleeps. For that she’s become part of a contest where she will interview potential young heroes and select one of them. Veena M announced this during a press conference. When journalists asked her questions about her marriage, she very calmly replied that marriage was about destiny; it would happen when it had to.

Sure Veena M, in your case, everything is about destiny.

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