Veteran actor Om Puri is upset with his wife, Nandita Puri for highlighting his sexual life in her biography Unlikely Hero: The Story of Om Puri. Puri was apparently reacting to an interview that Nandita had given to NDTV’s Group Editor Barkha Dutt on her show The Buck Stops Here a few days back.
This is what Nandita had said on the show: “I know that the instinct of a wife to begin with is that of a very protective spouse but don’t forget at the end of the day I am a journalist so I have to be somewhere honest to my profession and that was the whole idea of this biography. I wanted to tell a story and I wanted to tell it as honestly as possible.”
The actor is believed to have taken strong exception to Nandita talking about his sexual encounters with his 55-year-old maid Santi at the age of 14. Nandita has also written about his affair with another maid Lakshmi, whom he even wanted to marry.
Nandita, a journalist by profession, had spoken at length about her husband’s sex life in her interview to Barkha Dutt. According to her: “When I first married Om, he did tell me this incident about his maid. But I didn’t take it very seriously because I think deep down Om was honest enough to confide in me years ago. But I am sure such incidents happen with lots of men who don’t normally want to talk about their past. But when I was writing the biography I knew that my son would also read it at some point of time. It was entirely up to me to add this or not. But somewhere I felt if it had to be told it had to told truthfully and honestly. Being a journalist I felt we will put everything aside and just go ahead and tell the story well.” Read more….
