I agree---it's odd. It's interesting though that Neela hasn't had that key "breakdown" yet---we keep waiting for it to happen, but it seems like she's going right along. As Parminder said, EVERYTHING occurring in Neela's life (including Ray) will have to be addressed at some point. So perhaps next week, judging by next week's promo, she may be able to step back and evaluate her life and be able to understand what's happening to her.

I couldn't agree more! Neela has been through so much over the last two seasons--Michael's death, starting surgical residency, Ray's accident, the Gates drama, and oh yea--her own life threatening accident and major trauma!

I am really hoping this next episode will shed some light on what she is thinking and her emotional state. I think Parminder is so talented, and I'm ready to see some better writing for her this season and into the next. Anybody have a fave Neela episode?

Here are a couple for me:
Season 10--"The student"--The epi centered on Neela when she was still a med student. She was trying to prove herself as a competent doctor-to-be through the entire episode, and we see her make a huge medicine mistake and she starts to question what her place is as an MD.
Season 12-- "The Gallant Hero and the Tragic Victor"--Maybe this epi is on my mind since it just ran on TNT, but the scene where she is told of Michael's death is amazing. Parminder has a way of portraying her emotions simply through a look in her eyes. We see her devastation, and yet then we see her try to pull it together and shut her feelings down in front of her colleagues in the ER.

There are many more! But I just threw a couple out there. Of course, I'm a huge Ray/Neela fan, so the scene in which she leaves his apartment and moves out is one of my favorites simply because of the fabulous acting with Parminder and Shane. oh the angst!!

No, no... only Abby is allowed to have breakdowns. None of the other characters are allowed to have emotions or storylines whatsoever.

Seriously, I'm just peeved that Neela has been wasted for an entire season. I love Abby, but I wish she wasn't the only character getting a juicy story. They pay all these other wonderful actors... and for what? To play ice hockey with a cheese-wheel? I mean, C'mon...

I really like a lot of these evaluations of Neela that I have read so far in this thread. We should have started this sooner because it is very intriguing. Neela indeed seems like a lost soul this season and has been not only unrecognizable, but also almost impossible to connect with. I think much of it has to do with the absence of Ray. I don't think that was something TPTB anticipated and now they have nothing substantial to give this character. I think with the return of Shane still being up in the air(who would have thought we would still be saying that almost a year later?), Neela may continue to remain an enigma.

I couldn't agree more G-Unit and with the spoilers I've read, it seems as if TPTB have no respect for the history of the character. They are turning her into just another Sam. Sorry for those who are Sam fans but basically she is a walking hormone with a "mother dog" atitude that has gotten on mylast nerve.

Peace,
Sem1973

I agree G. If you think about it, all of Neela's storyline last season dealt with her relationship with Gates and the love triangle forming between her/Gates/Ray. We also saw some of the challenges she faced as she began her residency in surgery. All of a sudden this season, there is no Ray, the Gates relationship was completely dropped--so its like all of the substance TPTB built up last year was gone. So we get Neela on the ice rink and trying to train the goofy new surgical intern. Its almost like they didn't know what to do with her character.

At least the writers have one last season to redeem themselves, but I'm ready for something emotional and challenging for Neela--with Ray in the mix of course! I wish all this hoping will not be in vain...

The problem that I have with Neela is that she comes across as a very shallow person. I'm not saying that to try and bash her character but I just have to be realistic. Your husband died and to deal with that you go on an insane sexcapade with the worm known as Gates. Not to mention that she still hasn't dealt with Gallant's death in any meaningful way. Then one of your best friends/guy you were supposedly fallen in love with loses his legs the same night you were supposed to start a relationship with him. She hasn't showed the slightest thought about that all season long. If it weren't for Abby, Katey and Gates bringing up the subject, you would have thought Ray never existed in her life. All she talks about is sex(or lack there of), "Project Runway", turning down dates to get some sleep, etc. There is absolutely no deep introspection on her life and what's really at the core of her problems. Completely shallow in my opinion. Again, I am not bashing Neela. She is one of my favorite characters, but I have lost my connection with her simply because she herself appears to have lost connection with reality.

G-unit you said everything!
I'm totally agree with you!

I know a lot of us are disappointed with how Neela is behaving (due to how she is being written by Wells & Co.). I was doing some thinking as to the core of what her problem is and I have a theory.

As some have stated, Neela comes from a culture where women are submissive and quiet. They are not able to easily voice their opinions and feelings. Though Neela had made the big move to the US during her college years to give her self a chance at more opportunity, inside she was still that reserved young woman from London, England/Punjab, India. If we remember, it was very slow going for her trying to fit in at County when she first arrived. Most of the women did not like her for one reason or another (for Jing-May and Sam especially because both Pratt and Luka had taken a liking, innocent though it was, to Neela). The only doctor who she connected with (at first) was Michael and that was only at work. I don't remember them ever hanging out outside of work.

My take on the Neela/Michael relationship was they became close because neither of them had anyone else to confide in and both felt like outsiders. Other than working together though, the two never really got to know each other outside of County prior to him leaving. Their relationship while he was at war was basically a "star-crossed" romance. They could both dream up all these fantasies of what they hoped things would be like once they were reunited. They really didn't have an established relationship when he left and so when he finally returned, the rush to the alter for me was very odd because except for that one time he came back briefly and they finally consumated their relationship and she met his parents for dinner, they had no other interaction with each other (except via letters) but yet they were getting married? It was a little too far-fetched for me to be perfectly honest. The truth was Neela and Michael may have cared deeply for each other but it wasn't true love because they barely knew each other. When Michael died, the fairytale died with him and Neela found that very hard to accept. Neela had bascially defined her self through Michael at least when it came to her personal life and now he was gone and she was lost.

The problem was Neela has never really looked within herself to find out just who the real Neela is. Neela was probably never taught by her parents how to really deal with her feelings in a healthy open manner and that is why whenever she is faced with pain and loss in her personal life, instead of dealing with it, she runs aways. She did that when she lost Michael by starting the affair with Tony and then she did it again when Ray went away by being a work-aholic. Now a year later she has advanced in her career but personally she has not grown. She longs for companionship because in her mind she feels that if she has a boyfriend that void in her life will somehow be magically filled; once again she is looking to man to define herself instead of searching for that happiness within herself. The truth of it is that until Neela finally deals with the pain from the past and finds that happiness within herself she is never going to be good in any relationship with a man.

You can't possibly give your heart to someone and love them when you don't honestly love yourself and I feel that is what Neela's problem is. Looking for love on-line is fine as long as the individuals involved are already happy with themselves and are now wanting to share that happiness with the right person. In Neela's case, she is not happy and is naively looking to a man to give her that happiness.

The ironic thing is that in regards to her relationship with Ray, theirs was never a relationship of dependency. Though Neela helped get Ray's attitude towards his career back on track and Ray helped Neela to loosen up and begin to enjoy life instead of taking it so seriously all the time, it was never a case of, "I'll die with out her/him". Their relationship was not forced; it developed naturally and for the first time in both of their lives, they were in a relationship that was based in reality with all its every day ups and downs. The difference between the two of them was that Ray had eventually allowed himself to embrace that real connection but Neela on the other hand ran from it. Part of it was because she couldn't pursue anything beyond friendship with Ray due to being Michael. Just the same, after Michael's death, she still ran away from it because I think she honestly believed that it wasn't possible to be in love with your best friend. She was in unfamiliar territory and instead of taking a chance at a real love relationship with Ray, Neela chose to let her fears take control and as a result hinder her from any possible growth.

The thing is even if Neela had told Ray in the hospital room that she had fallen in love with him too, I don't think she still could have moved on with Ray because she had yet to deal with the loss of Michael. That was what I was hoping the writers would have done with her character this season. To have her do some serious soul-searching and finally deal with her loss and get to know the real Neela so she could eventually heal and move on. Instead they just had her hide behind her work and once again run away from her pain. I thought there might still be hope for her with all these emotional patient cases at the end of the season hopefully causing her to reevaluate her life. Unfortunately yet again, the writers have her running away by searching for a man on the Internet.

Basically until Neela grows up and finally deals with her life instead of running away, she will never be able to truely give her heart to Ray because with him it would be the real deal and not some fantasy. With him she would have to be a whole person and she is not a whole person at this time. Neela is the only one who can make herself whole.

Peace,
Sem1973

Taping alert...

Tuesday, May 13

Late Late Show: John Cusack, Paraminder Nagra

Neela and Michael did hang out after work. Actually in one episode I remember Michael introducing Neela to his sister. So they did have a reltionship outside of county, but TPTB chose not to glorify it as much. I think TPTB intended to keep the relationship low key because it was a boring relationship, and michael was boring too. Sorry to those who liked Neela and Michael together but, they were the most boring couple on the show, next to Peter Benton and that actress Michael Michele.

I found some really nice pictures of Mindi.

www.daylife.com/topic/Parminder_Nagra/photos/all

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Please don't post links to pirated videos on the forum...I've removed a post doing just that.

JD/Forum Moderator

I would like to give this post the title: "Does Neela Need Professional Help?"

Even the idea of Neela seeing a shrink might seem ridiculous to some, however, I personally think it is something that would hugely benefit her. IMO, she is not very healthy mentally right now. For the past several weeks we have seen Neela fall into a bottomless pit of loneliness, despair, frustration, and hopelessness. I think that her insane encounter with Brenner last night was simply her hitting rock bottom.

This is a woman who got married on a whim to a man she barely knew(and I still question whether or not she was in love with him), only to have him abandon her a few weeks later to go back to Iraq where he later died. That's enough to traumatize anyone. Then instead of dealing with that tragedy, she goes on a futile and senseless relationship with the irresponsible Gates. A relationship that ended up with Gates jilted ex-lover committing suicide and a young girl, Sarah, being traumatized for the rest of her life(and probably subconsciously blaming Neela as well for her mother's fate).

After finally waking up to the fact that her relationship with Gates was going nowhere, she finally realized Ray was the one for her, only to have her dreams crushed when he got in an accident, lost his legs, and had to move back home to Baton Rouge. She has been on a slide down hill ever since and seemed to be in major denial all season even to the point where she finds it more comforting to create illusions in her mind rather than have to deal with reality.

She cries constantly for no explained reason and has been behaving erratic all year long with movie impersonations, hockey playing/fighting, and a whole bunch of other questionable and bizarre behavior. Is anyone suspicious that she's suffering from some form of PTSD? Call me crazy, but I think the poor girl needs help. And I'm not bashing Neela. Even throughout this frustrating season, I still believe in her and love her character. But I'm worried for her and think she needs more than simply Ray's love to get over her problems.

Interestingly she accused Dubenko last night of abandoning her. Everybody leaves her. So she figures the quick, nonemotional one-night stand is easier on her heart and soul than trying to get involved with a guy because in the end, they all leave her.

Marrying Michael is what set her off on this spiral. It was a impetuous decision that interfered with the natural course of other relationships in her life (namely, Ray), and coupled with incredibly bad timing and a heavy dose of guilt, she has not been able to regain her footing. It's been one mistake after another. (And I'm not bashing Michael -- some people think he was a dud, but I liked him. Still, their marriage was totally rushed.)

I'm not sure where exactly this fits but I'm posting it on this thread as I think it is for the most part a commentary on Neela and where she's at right now.

I know its only fiction but if there is one thing that does not work on ER its far- fetched personal storylines, the other is long drawn out melodramas.

Let’s face it regardless of how incognito Ray wished to remain; it is not believable that he would just disappear without remaining in contact with anybody. Although come to think of it both Susan and Elizabeth did exactly that.

The difference was that both Susan’s and Elizabeth’s stories had run their course. Ray’s story had no closure. There were far too many loose ends.
In the meantime the melodrama surrounding Neela for the entire of Season 14 was really a non-drama.

She was allowed to stagnate or rather flounder in the same way as Elizabeth was allowed to flounder after the demise of Mark. We are expected to feel sorry for her but at this point does anyone really remember why? She’s tortured, she’s feeling lost, she’s floundering but quite why, we’re not sure any more.

The non-appearance or mention of Ray and the lack of real contact with Abby or Pratt has left her character in limbo. So, we’ve had this long drawn out melodrama about little or nothing. We can but hope its leading somewhere.

I’ve read reference to the parallels between her character and that of John Carter. But John’s descent into addiction and his redemption post-Lucy and post- accident was more immediate. Neela’s descent post-Michael was gradual. Then when redemption seemed imminent, the lifeline was snatched away. John, when he’s grieving or despairing reaches for Narcotics or alcohol, Neela gravitates toward meaningless sex and inappropriate relationships. She throws herself without warning at the most unlikely of people and careers down a path equally as destructive as Carter’s descent into drug addiction. The only problem is her actions, at least to date, appear to impact as much on others as they do on her. Will it be different this time?

Will the close encounter with Brenner be simply that, a close encounter? From what we have seen of him so far, he is an arrogant, narcissistic bully and his treatment of Laverne was appalling and verging on abusive. If the writers craft it properly, it could be very believable to dump Neela into an abusive relationship. Yes. Ultimately, we all want a happy ever after but in the meantime Neela needs a real story. Melodrama, maybe. Farfetched, most definitely not! In addition, I cannot recall any of the key characters being involved in an abusive relationship before but I am open to correction.

Yes. I know Reela fans are going to hate me for the mere suggestion but this is ER. I’m not sure about the rest of you but I want to see real drama for the remaining 19 episodes. Anyhow, let’s face it, damsels in distress need to be rescued from their dragons. Cue one knight in shining armour.
Ahem! Is the above farfetched or melodramatic?

BTW: I still do not get that Carter received so much care and attention after his near death experience, Abby received time off after her hostage experience(that time she was operating in the back of a moving car), Morris received counselling after his hostage experience but Neela appears to need no such intervention! Weird.

Galwaygirl, can you elaborate please? What are you implying here? Are you saying that Neela will throw herself in another futile and meaningless relationship with Brenner in order to deal with her grief in a similar fashion to what she did with Gates? I do agree that Neela's drug of choice is indeed sleeping with wreckless, womanizing men in order to numb herself from the pain that her tragic reality offers her. I would just like you to elaborate more in detail of what road you think they are going down with Neela and Brenner. Also, how do you think that will connect with the storyline with Ray(if there is one considering that we still don't know if we'll ever see him again) and closure to their relationship?

G-Unit
In response to above.
To be honest, I am not implying anything, I am simply speculating.
Season 13 was quite a good season with significant progression of individual storylines. Season 14, on the other hand was a bit of an non-event. The only ‘real’ stories were Abby’s and Pratt’s and to a lesser extent Gates and Sam but that was really just fluff. Note, I do not mention Luca as I do not think we saw any real progress with his character, he just brooded in the background and was a filler to complete Abby’s story.
Neela, on the other hand, floundered for the entire season.
There are, no doubt, a number of reasons for this. I would see the following as being chief among them. 1. The impact of the writer’s strike probably necessitated shuffling storylines. 2. Maybe TPTB did not wish to move her character forward until it were clear if Shane West would make a return appearance. That would mean that whatever transpired between Ray and Neela would be believable.
3. Once they knew there was to be a season 15, TPTB needed to save some storylines.
But I digress.
To your question, do I believe that Neela will throw herself into another futile and meaningless relationship? I don’t know, only the writers can answer that but let me just state the following.
At the end of Season 13, Neela’s character was at a low ebb. Now, at the end of Season 14 she is at an even lower ebb. I believe she is still grieving for both Michael and Ray. In addition, although it has never been discussed, she is I would imagine disfigured as a result of her accident. Given all of that, her self-esteem must surely be at an all time low!!!
Thus she gravitates toward the only kind of person she thinks she deserves. If she were to enter into some sort of liason with Brenner, it is not beyond the realms of possibility that it would be an abusive relationship not necessarily physically abusive but certainly emotionally. As we have seen already Brenner is well capable of that.
Yes, someone emotionally strong and whole would give this creep a wide berth but Neela is emotionally debilitated and extremely vulnerable. She is too needy to make rational choices.

Galwaygirl I agree with your reasons as to why Neela's character progression came to a standstill in Season 14. This is why I have not hammered the writers as to Neela's "lost season".

You're right that Neela is at an even lower point at the end of Season 14 than at the end of Season 13. I think Brenner will be Neela's bottom for no less a reason that this will be the last season of ER, the writers won't have time to take her any lower. Season 15 will have to be a season of resolution and healing (or beginning of healing) for Neela. I don't believe the writers would finish up ER with Neela still having major unaddressed issues. Hopefully this will be done with Shane in front of the camera for a minimum of one episode.

I think Ray is her healing- The end result before ER ends is that Neela is gonna have to resolve her incomplete feeling, her problems. This is another reason why Ray came back- and we saw in haunted how she felt around him. She needs him. But now all it is, she needs to admit her feelings.. and again this is gonna take time. Shes gonna have to learn abit more then fight for the change her in her ways and her happiness needs to manifest in her decisions.

i agree ray is her home her strength her piece of mind .i myself though that she would again hook up with breener thursday night to fill the void her punk rock loving man left thank god she didn't.it also dawned on me i was watching a season 12 episode last week where neela's parents came they were on her about her not being sure she wanted to be a dr and on her about sending money home .and neela said they have never let her follow her own path and do what she wanted and her mom said why would we you wanted to be a punk rock singer when you were young .and i finally got it she fell in love with a punk singer and even though he isn't one anymore she's still afraid to admit she trully loves him b/c of the things her parents have put in her head and the mistakes she has made and the fear.yet by the end of the season when ray comes back i think she'll fight for him.heather

Lorinieters, Sater: in a recent interview confirming the pregnancy, Mindi said there was no plan to write the pregnancy into the script (which should be a relief to Roomie fans, considering the current timeline for Ray appearances would not have allowed it to be his baby, even though I for one would have loved that. .) Apparently her growing belly will be hidden by lab coats and high counters/desks.

She's not married, but she did say she and her boyfriend of seven years, James Stenton, plan to wed soon. If you check other Roomie boards, you can see some old pics that were reposted of them.

Incidentally, after the baby news broke, 'Parminder Nagra' was #5 on top Yahoo searches this morning.

yeah Sandalwood is right!

A little picture of Mindi shows her growing belly :

You can read all news here:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/artic...cting-baby.html

Congrats to Mindi and James!

ER’s Parminder Nagra expecting first baby

Parminder Nagra, who plays Dr. Neela Rasgotra on “ER,” and her photographer beau James Stenson, are expecting their first child this summer, the actress told US Weekly magazine. “We are thrilled and overjoyed at the prospect of becoming first-time parents,” Nagra told the mag. The couple, who have been together for nearly seven years, plan to eventually tie the knot, too. “Yes. our plans are to get married but there’s no confirmed date yet,” Nagra said. The 33-year-old actress, who was born in England, will continue to live in Los Angeles with Stenson.

Article URL: http://www.bostonherald.com/track/star_tra...ticleid=1136163

I'm happy for Nagra. I wish that her pregnancy could be written in the show.

Warning, there are some spoilers in the People article...

In one of the interviews from Sundance on Saturday, Goran mentioned he was missing a good friend's wedding to appear at the festival...today these appeared on my google alerts.

19 January 2009 4:00 AM, PST | From wenn.com

ER actress Parminder Nagra has married her longterm partner James Stenson in an intimate ceremony in Hollywood Hills, California.

The couple, who has been together for seven years, tied the knot in a traditional Sikh service on Saturday afternoon.

The 33-year-old actress and her beau said their vows in front of a select group of friends and family at a private home in Hollywood.

Nagra and Stenson are expecting their first child this summer and have announced they "are thrilled and overjoyed at the prospect of becoming first time parents."

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http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20...rss-fullcontent

ER' s Parminder Nagra Weds Longtime Boyfriend
By Howard Breuer

Originally posted Monday January 19, 2009 07:00 PM EST


Photo by: Noel Vasquez / Getty

Parminder Nagra and her longtime boyfriend, celebrity photographer James Stenson, were married Saturday afternoon in Hollywood, the actress's rep confirms to PEOPLE.

Nagra, 33, who plays Neela Rasgotra on NBC's medical drama ER, wed Stenson, 34, her beau of seven years, in a traditional Sikh ceremony known as "Anand Karaj," which means "blissful event or occasion" and is considered a holy union between two souls.

Nagra was born and raised in Leicester, England, although her family traces its roots to the state of Punjab in India. She met Stenson "on a couple of jobs I did before I came out [to the U.S.]," she told PEOPLE in 2007.

In December, the Bend It Like Beckham star announced that she and Stenson were expecting their first child together this summer.

That fact will actually benefit the fifteenth and last season of ER, according to show executive producer John Wells, who told reporters at the Television Critics Association press conference on Thursday that her pregnancy will be incorporated in some final episodes.

"We were trying to juggle how that was going to work because she is starting to show," Wells said, "and what seemed sort of tragic at first … when we talked about it … there was a tremendous feeling of, 'Oh, there's this one [story] that we haven't done,' so it's actually very exciting."

The pregnancy being written into the storyline is rather scary news considering Neela and Ray have not slept together! Crap! They wouldn't really do that to us, would they??

I just heard that she got married this past weekend. I'm so happy for her...

I am really happy for Parminders marriage and baby. Congrats !!!

But if they use the Mindi's baby for to be Neela & Brenner's babe , this will be a slap in the Roomies fans face. I hope not!
I hope that ER production have seen the ratings. This week was a disaster.
And may be worse, when the great mass of roomies's fans no longer see ER.
Brenner and Neela relationship has put a lot of fans away from the show!
We roomies fans have been very tortured. Maybe too patient and not lose one episode. We see everyone. At least the ER production could recognize it.
I hope that my fears are not transformed into reality.
We Roomies fans are constantly called mad/crazy, dreamers, pathetic because we always try that ER producers and scriptwriters listen to us. I hope it worth being have heard all this and in the end we have the ER final that we deserve.

To the writers and TPTB at ER - Please do the right thing with the pregnancy. I wouldn't be suprised if the angle of who's the father would be used for suspense and drama in the final episodes (read in another thread on this board that ER may be getting two additional episodes - hopefully Neela will be at the center). But please don't make Brenner the father - please. The problem is logistically (as far as when he is supposed to appear again on ER) it could only be Ray's child one of two ways. Ray and Neela get together, consumate their relationship soon enough for Neela to announce her pregnancy or they consumated off camera. The latter I don't see happening. This would be the final, gut-wrenching, slap in the Roomies face if Brenner turns out to be the father. Given how the Neela/Ray storyline has been handled, at this point nothing would suprise me.

I wish the best for Parminder, husband and baby! I'm so happy for them!

But like the others fans I hope TPTB at ER dont use the pregnancy of Parminder, to result in Brenner son. It would be absurd. And one more reason to depart Roomies fans and ruin the show...

I hope And ruin the show do the right thing!

In my last sentence I forgot to write 2 words:

I hope and BEFORE TPDB ruin the show...hope they do the right thing!
(sorry for english mistakes..)

I hate to say that if the writers use the pregnancy it's not likely to be good news for us Reela fans. However, sometimes writers are very creative. One option would be an episode that shows the future, where certain doctors are shown down the road. Say Neela and Ray have a child and another on the way (or their first child). Who knows. There's still hope. On the same wave length, it's hard to see how if Neela is supposed to be pregnant, how she and some of her co-workers wouldn't already know or suspect. I mean, it's been months, she and those around her are doctors. She would know already and I doubt she'd be able to hide it for months. That would be a little hard to believe. So, something creative will have to be done.

I am happy for Mindi, that that baby is lit up and give a lot of happiness for the couple

I hope I am not angry with the producing of ER, and that they think a lot as well as they will write the pregnancy of Neela, it would be unforgivable that baby to be son of Brenner, because it would be a son of a simple case, just sex, instead of the history of Neela with Ray, structured in the friendship, in the trust, in the love and in the respect, in spite that sometimes Neela forgets those values.

and they don't need to be so creative to show the pregnancy, just make Neela to travel for Baton Rouge, to visit Ray, that doesn't need to be filmed but just to be commented on in the episode, Neela returns (very happy) and after some time she discovers that it is pregnant of Ray, simple and perfect, that would be viable for the history of the pregnancy.

and us - fans - we would not be angry

Kat

http://www.istamos.com/?q=gallery&g2_itemId=1138

oh thank you Rebecca3!
Love the scan!

the belly of Mindi is already growing, you see a pic in this site, her and the husband - it is in the middle of the page

http://www.zimbio.com/Parminder+Nagra

Kat

I'm happy for Mindi's new marriage and her pregnancy as well but this is for the writers, PLEASE do NOT make the pregnancy that will be added into the finale episodes of ER Brenner's child, that'd be horrible for reela fans and I'm sure they're be alot of hate. Making Brenner the father isn't what what we call a satisfying ending to reela as joe S stated. stop torturing us reela fans and just give us what we want, we've waited for a long time, its make it or break time! REELA NOW!

kakaka: That pic is old

I love the pics of her wedding, she looked stunning and everyone looked really happy!

ITs great to see that the ER cast went there!

if the pic is old, then what size is her belly? because in that picture it seemed already to be of about 4 months.
do you know of how long she is pregnant?

Kat
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Awww, congo to Mindi on her marriage as well as her pregnancy!! xx

I really grew to love Neela in the early seasons, especially when Ray was introduced but there'd be no great roomie storyline without her but thanks to Mindi for making it to be such an excellent storyline!

From: http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20...ss-topheadlines

It's a Boy for Parminder Nagra!
By Sarah Michaud and Ulrica Wihlborg

Originally posted Wednesday May 27, 2009 05:35 PM EDT

ER star Parminder Nagra and her husband, photographer James Stenson, have welcomed son Kai David Singh Stenson, a rep for the actress confirms to PEOPLE.

"Mother, daddy, and baby are all doing great," says the rep. The child was born on May 19.

After finding out Nagra was pregnant, producers of the NBC medical drama decided to incorporate her pregnancy in some final episodes.

"We were trying to juggle how that was going to work because she [was] starting to show," ER executive producer John Wells said at the time. "What seemed sort of tragic at first ... when we talked about it ... there was a tremendous feeling of, 'Oh, there's this one [story] that we haven't done,' so it's actually very exciting."

In March, Nagra celebrated the upcoming arrival of her baby boy with a shower planned by Stenson. Among the gifts from her husband? A Tuni & G Cutie navy blue onesie.



Nagra, 33, and Stenson, 34, announced the pregnancy in December and were married the following month after seven years together.

The actress first rose to fame with her role in Bend It Like Beckham. She played Neela Rasgota on NBC's medical drama ER.