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ACTOR NIHARIKA SINGH RESPONDS TO THE BOOK
“Nawaz and I had a brief relationship during the making of Miss Lovely. Today, when he paints me as a woman enticing him into her bedroom with candles, or desperately calling him, I can only laugh. He obviously wants to sell his book and it’d appear that he’s willing to exploit and disrespect a woman just to do so. He has chosen to fabricate stories and manipulate a fleeting relationship. None of what he has written has been with my knowledge, let alone
— and those are being lapped up by gossip lovers. The thought of people’s reaction to his unabashed “truth” did make Nawaz jittery. “I don’t know isko bahut sare log kaise judge karenge. Ho sakta hai ek bahut ajeeb si image ban jaye meri… Iss cheez ki mujhe thodi si fikr aur darr bhi hai. But it’s okay. Jo fact hai, maine wohi samne rakhne ki koshish kari,” he says. For Bollywood stars and their fans, the revelation of such intimate personal details my consent. It’s this very aspect of Nawaz that caused me to end my relationship with him. I’ve maintained that he’s a brilliant actor. However, I had hoped these acting skills would remain confined only to the screen. Still, I wish him well.” As told to Shreya Mukherjee
is explosive — Nawaz has written about a torrid onenight stand with a waitress in New York! But true to how experimental he is as an actor, the writer Nawaz is ready to break stereotypes, even if that means exposing his true self. “I don’t think I’m a superstar, but I’m a human being first. Har insaan chahta hai, mai kisi ko zarur bataun ki mai kaisa hun. Lekin iss darr se ki log mere baare mein kya sochenge, shayad nahi batata. Yeh insaan ka nature hai… Insaan humare Bollywood ki filmon ke hero ki tarahe sarv gun sampann thodi na hota hai. Insaan ke andar kuchh achchhai hai toh kuchh buraiyan bhi toh hoti hai,” says the actor, who has done varied films such as Bajrangi Bhaijaan (2015), Raman Raghav 2.0 (2016), and this year’s Mom, and Babumoshai Bandookbaaz. Nawaz admits that he could’ve chosen to conceal some of the facts or names, such as TV actor Achint Kaur influencing her flatmate and Nawaz’s first girlfriend Sunita to break up with the then struggling Nawaz. He gave it a lot of thought and considered the consequences. “Mujhe maloom hai ki iske baad bahut saare log bura manenge, par nahi to phir mai kyun likh raha hun,” says the actor. And finally, he decided: “Agar likhna hai to sach likho, warna mat likho.”