Nawazuddin Siddiqui‘s memoir, An Ordinary Life has ruffled quite a few feathers. Otherwise known to be shy, the actor has not held back on his words in his book and one particular revelation has not exactly been pleasant – including his encounter with his Miss Lovely co-star, Niharika Singh.
In an exclusive interview to BollywoodLife, Niharika repsonded to the alleged incident Nawa has mentioned in his book. Not surprisingly, she is upset about her portrayal and called it a fabricated & manipulated story.
Here’s what she said:
Nawaz and I had a brief relationship during the making of Miss Lovely that lasted less than a few months in 2009. So today when he paints me as a woman in fur enticing him into her bedroom with candles, or desperately calling him and mailing other women on his behalf, I can only laugh. He obviously wants to sell his book and it would appear that he is willing to exploit and disrespect a woman just to do so. He has chosen to fabricate stories and manipulate a fleeting relationship.
She also claimed that she was not asked for her consent before the book was published:
None of what he has written has been with my knowledge, let alone my consent. It is this very aspect of Nawaz that caused me to end my relationship with him in the first place. I have always maintained that he’s a brilliant actor. However, I had hoped these acting skills would have remain confined only to the screen. Still, I wish him well. This is all I have to say.