Actors Ranveer Singh and Sonakshi Sinha are being touted to be the next hot pair of Bollywood - on screen as well as off-screen. Just as Anushka Sharma and Ranveer Singh were known to be madly in love, Sonakshi went on record to say how sexy she found Ranveer, and Ranveer too expressed his fondness for Sonakshi.

Now that Anuhska and Ranveer claim that they are not a couple, talks about Ranveer and Sonakshi have been doing the rounds so much that something that started as a 'friendly' gesture of introduction has suddenly become serious business. Though friends of the actors' claim that the two have got to know each other better than ever before, another source informs us that Sonakshi and Ranveer have purposely made statements about each other just to be in the news! "They didn't have back-to-back releases, they are newcomers, and they had to be in the news. They've smartly played their cards," we're told. However, now, Sonakshi has got all perturbed with the amount of attention this 'relationship' is getting, and is doing her best to maintain a safe distance from Ranveer, the guy whom she once found 'sexy'.