Arjun Kapoor and Malaika Arora return to Mumbai after celebrating her birthday in Italy; view PICS

Link up rumours are not uncommon in Bollywood and Malaika Arora and Arjun Kapoor have been rumoured to be ‘good friends’ for many years now. They now seem more comfortable being seen together publicly. Recently, they were spotted sitting next to each other at a fashion show and did not bother about the paparazzi present there. They also attended a party at Abu Jani and Sandeep Khosla’s residence. Arjun and Malaika were spotted hanging out with friends at the bash. They even left together fueling speculations about their close friendship.

More recently, Arjun promoted his film, Namaste England on the sets of India’s Got Talent on which Malaika is one of the judges. They walked hand in hand on the stage and even twerked with a contestant. Today, Arjun and Malaika were spotted at the airport as they returned from Italy. Malaika was in Italy over the past week to ring in her 45th birthday. She had shared posts about love and had indicated having a special someone with her on the trip. Malaika shared a photo of herself from the trip and had captioned it, “We found LOVE in a hopeless place…. He looks at me like nobody else does with….”and ended it with a red heart emoji. She also posted another picture and captioned it, “Tugging at my heart strings… Sorry belt.”

We found LOVE in a hopeless place...He looks at me like nobody does with... #Milano #withlove

Tugging at my heart strings ..... sorry belt #Milano

Arjun was asked about his marriage in interviews during the promotions of his film Namaste England. He had then said that he intends to fulfill his grandmother’s wish of settling down at the right time with the right person!