Om Puri on a platter

Veteran actor Om Puri has a tiff with his wife Nandita. Reason? Nandita detailed Om’s sexual escapades in a book, The Story Of Om Puri. Upset over his wife’s descriptions, Om said, “I don’t care if she’s my wife. I won’t let her get away with it. It was so cheap.’’Nandita has revealed Om’s sex with his maid Shanti when he was 14. She has also exposed Om’s affair with another,Laxmi with whom he was sexually and emotionally involved. Says Om: “My wife has reduced a sacred part of my life to gossip. I shared the secrets with Nandita as a husband.”Asked about Laxmi, Om doesn’t deny he had sex with her: “This lady raised me and my brother’s orphaned children.

My relationship with this woman was a homage to her loyalty…why make a tamasha out of these sensitive moments? Do you know, when I was a child,I was travelling by train with my destitute mother. The entire compartment collected money to feed us.I was even working in a teashop when I was seven. When I came to the FTII, Pune I didn’t have a decent shirt to wear.I had to borrow one from Naseeruddin.” Aparajita Krishna was already writing Om’s biography. But when Nandita wanted to write one, he couldn’t stop her.The actor complains that Nandita didn’t allow him to read the manuscript.When contacted, Nandita said, “My book is a biography, not pornography.

It’s about Om, the man and the actor.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 and demolishing class differences.If Om has any objection to her being called a maid he’s just being unrealistic.”The double escapades has made Om feel he’ll be compared to Shiney Ahuja. ``Now my husband is angry,my publishers are upset and so am I,” said Nandita.