Niharika Singh has now hit back on the comments made by Nawazuddin Siddiqui in his upcoming Memoir, An ordinary Life. The actor discusses his relationships with actress’ in the biography, and recounts his experience with Niharika on the set of Miss Lovely, and how their relationship developed and the two became intimate with each other. Regarding their relationship, the actor had said, “Niharika was an intelligent girl. Being an actor herself meant that she knew and understood my struggle for work… She would call me in frequent spurts throughout the day demanding to know of my whereabouts… (Then) The regularity of the questions felt like being nagged non–stop….Niharika obviously expected some of the sweet conversations that lovers have, to take place between us. But I was quite a selfish b*****d. I had a plain aim: go to her house, make out and leave. I couldn’t talk lovey-dovey too much. It finally struck her that I was a rascal who cared only for himself.”
But now, as Niharika has said, Nawazuddin’s recollection of their relationship is not only false, its also laughable.
“Nawaz and I had a brief relationship in 2009 during the making of Miss Lovely that lasted less than a few months. 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,” Niharika said, in the statement released in the wake of the events.
She further added, “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 remained confined only to the screen. Still, I wish him well.”
So, it is clear that Niharika didn’t give her permission to Nawazuddin to publish the book, and include her name in it, and it’ll be interesting to see what he has to say about these recent comments made by the actress.
An Ordinary life is scheduled to be released on 25th October 2017, and has been written with Rituparna Chatterjee.
