Meera’s new strategy seems to be to open her mouth as infrequently as possible. There’s a hush, which in a manner of speaking can be deafening.

Not an awful lot transpired in the Meera-Atiqur Rehman saga last week. But that doesn’t mean those scary-looking hatchets have been buried, because Atiqur Rehman gave an interview on one of the TV channels on Monday night, giving air to his thoughts vis-à-vis the whole married-or-not-married situation.

It wasn’t a startling tête-à-tête, but it had some extremely interesting moments. Atiqur Rehman alleged that Meera was in contact with ‘other people’, a fact which she didn’t like Atiq to know about. He said the actress had telephonic contacts with them, and deleted their messages and phone call details when Atiq entered the house.

In order to prove his relationship with Meera, the businessman from Faisalabad said actress Zeba Bakhtiar knows about it, because during the shooting of one of her plays the couple often dined with Ms Bakhtiyar. He added he had spent between four to five crore rupees on Meera, and if she wanted a divorce she could do that by admitting that she’s his wife. However, if the Lollywood leading lady wishes to stay with him as his better half, he wouldn’t mind: “Agar woh basna chahay to theek hai…”

Atiqur Rehman also went on to advise all men not to marry showbiz women. He said at a meeting in which Sangeeta was also present, Meera touched his feet, sought his forgiveness and said she couldn’t accept that she’s married to Atiq in front of the media.

Atiqur Rehman rued that he didn’t pay heed to his parents’ advice when they tried to stop him from tying the knot with Meera, saying she couldn’t stay with him for long.

See folks, that’s what they mean when they say: Aachay bachchon ko maan baap ki baat maan leney chahiye.