Om furious!: Om Puri is enormously upset with his wife, journalist-columnist Nandita for highlighting some of his most private sexual incidents to market her biography, Unlikely Hero: The Story Of Om Puri. A discernibly upset Om said, "I don't care if she's my wife. I won't let her get away with it. I heard her speaking about the biography she's written on me. I was shocked by her revelations. She was talking about my sexual encounters as though those were my biggest achievements!"'Sacred part': Om's main reason for being upset is Nandita's revelation that he had sex with his maid Shanti at 14. She has also exposed Om's longstanding liaison with a woman named Laxmi with whom Om was sexually and emotionally involved. Om is livid. "My wife has reduced a sacred part of my life to cheap and lurid gossip. If she chose to make them public at least she should've made sure to maintain a dignity about experiences that are a valuable part of my life."
'Beautiful experience': Om says that Laxmi was one of the most important women in his life. "This lady whom Nandita talks in such an undignified manner was Laxmi, who raised me and my brother's orphaned children. My relationship with her was a homage to her loyalty for looking after me unconditionally." Om doesn't deny he had sex with Laxmi. "But it was not a furtive and sleazy experience. It was beautiful. Why make such a tamasha out of these very sensitive moments?"
'Can't forgive her': The actor complains that Nandita didn't allow him to read the manuscript. "How was I to know how she would use the incidents from my life to sell her book?" When we promised to be discreet in putting forward his anguish and humiliation, Om retorted, "Please don't be discreet. Has she exercised any discretion in talking about my personal experiences? The final decision to put my life up as a tamasha was Nandita's. I can't forgive her."
'Maid' reality': When we asked Nandita for her side of the story, she said, "My book on my husband is a biography, not bl***y pornography. It's about Om, the man and the actor. Om has all the human foibles, just like all of us. He had sex as an adolescent with his maid and then he had a long liaison with the other lady who was also a maid. This was his way of coming out of his other relationships. If Om has any objection to her being called a maid he's just being unrealistic."
source: indiatimes
