Rajalakshmi, the Cadbury model -- the ad in which the buffalo chases the couple -- is married to the cause. She is madly in love with her husband, Sameer Soni. So much so that she gets restless when he is not around. They first met when the ad was being shot (he is in the ad with her). "It wasn't love at first sight or any such thing. But he found me to be a nice person and vice versa," she says. It didn't take long for them to be in love. And they tied the knot soon after. "Sameer is a fine person. If I need a friend he's by my side, if I need a fatherly advice I can fall back on Sameer and when I need a partner, he's of course always there. That's exactly why it's so difficult not to have him around," coos Mrs Soni. The model-couple can't bear to be separate even for the hours that they shoot. "We keep in touch over the mobile," Rajalakshmi lets out their solution for the frequent pangs of love. Things will get all the more difficult now, what with hubby getting into films. "I try and be with him on outdoors whenever I can or else he takes good care of him by keeping in touch regularly," says Rajalakshmi.

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