Sonakshi Sinha’s linkup with \'Notebook\' actor is a stunt

Mumbai: Sources close to Sonakshi Sinha are livid at  the insinuation that there is something  brewing between Sonakshi and newcomer Zaheer Iqbal, who makes his debut next week in director Nitin Kakkar’s The  Notebook.

Explains a source close to Sonakshi, “She’s just being  nice and sweet to  a newcomer who happens to be launched  by Salman Khan,  just like Sonakshi was (in  Dabanng). Zaheer is  moving  in  the same circle these days as Salman. The next thing she knows she’s being linked with this newcomer.”

The source describes the link-up rumours as  publicity for Notebook.

“This is probably  the publicity machinery at work. We normally have newcomers working together in their first film being linked together for publicity. But this time they chose to deflect the  publicity to an outside source. But the Sonakshi isn’t taking this lying down,” says a  source.

The next time we suggest the publicity machinery  pick someone their own size.