LOVE TIMES 24 Do women have to date 24 times to find Mr Right? Indian hotties disagree with British survey .

   Trust the British to come up with this one. No, this isn’t a survey on sex. It’s the dreaded ‘L’ word that drops with kiloton force on the hearts and minds of the unsuspecting. And what some boffins at a British dating website have come up with is that a woman needs to go through 24 dates with different men and spend a goodish amount on flowers, gifts, sexy lingerie (for themselves, of course)... before finding Mr Right. Closer home, things work differently. And why not? They say to-MAH-to, we say to-MAY-to! So going by these responses we picked up, the idea that you have to spend ‘x’ amount and have a scorecard of dates seems silly.
    Eesha Koppikhar, who tied
    the knot with Timmy Narang few months back, dismissively says, “I don’t believe in these kind of surveys.” A sentiment echoed by Riddhima Kapoor who feels “such surveys are rubbish, when people don’t have much to do, they dream up such studies”. Claudia Ciesla, who was quite a handful in the second season of Bigg Boss, puts her pretty foot down firmly, “Gosh, how ridiculous! It’s not about the number, it’s about the vibe between two people.”
    Like a picture speaks a thousand words, Neetu Chandra believes her body does the same. So her reply to this is that of equal brevity. “Haha, this is a funny survey,” she offers. Singer Shibani Kashyap is against the analysis of love. “I think if the survey says that you will find true love after spending ‘x’ amount of money and after ‘y’ amount of relationships, there’s something wrong. How can you put a formula on such a thing? It’s all natural!”
    Fashionista Maheka Mirpuri has no designs on love, either, “I don’t think love has any formula, it’s about compatibility and not materialistic gains and losses. Love has to do with emotions and can’t be approached as a profit and loss balance sheet of a business.” She has company, and designer Pria Kataria Puri admits, “I’m old-fashioned and don’t equate money and gifts with love. It’s about finding your soul mate, and one does not need to date many men in order to do so, I believe the cosmic energy plays a bigger role in finding Mr Right and not excessive dating and gifting.”
    Kashmera Shah quotes a filmi line, “Jo bhi pyaar se mila, hum usi ke ho liye.
Women have started taking this too literally. Money can’t buy love but it makes the man’s face look prettier!” Anjana Sukhani is also too much of an idealist for a formula. “I feel if two people are in love, they would work hard to fulfill each other’s needs. And no amount of money can fill the vacuum or replace love.” But it’s the
    feisty Nauheed
    Cyrusi who has
    the last word
    with, “I think
    there are two kinds of women. The kind who can be bought and the kind who truly love! And the idea of marriage has just changed. Women have got too independent and don’t need a man to survive.”
    Gloria Gaynor, are you listening?