After drawing severe flak for documenting his relationships, and following a complaint reportedly registered with the National Commission for Women that accuses him of outraging the modesty of ‘Miss Lovely’ co-star Niharika Singh, actor Nawazuddin Siddiqui announced on Monday that he had decided to withdraw his recently released book, ‘An Ordinary Life: A Memoir’.
“I’m apologising 2 every1 who’s sentiments r hurt bcz of d chaos around my memoir #AnOrdinaryLife (sic),” Siddiqui posted on Twitter. “I hereby regret & decide 2 withdraw my book,” he tweeted.
In the tell-all book co-authored by journalist Rituparna Chatterjee, 43-year-old Siddiqui has not only revealed intimate details of his affair with Singh but also stated that actress Sunita Rajwar left him because she wanted to “date someone successful, not a struggling, desperate actor who was out of work”. After some excerpts were released recently, both Singh and Rajwar slammed Siddiqui for distorting facts.
In a public statement last week, Niharika Singh accused Nawazuddin Siddiqui of lying in his book and stated that he had not taken her consent before documenting their story.
“Nawaz and I had a brief relationship in 2009 during the making of ‘Miss Lovely’ that lasted less than a few months. 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,” said Singh in her statement.
On October 30, reports revealed that a Delhi-based lawyer named Gautam Gulati had filed a complaint with NCW on behalf of Singh.
Reacting to the portions mentioning her, Rajwar—who stars in the TV show ‘Yeh Rishta Kya Kehlata Hai’—wrote an elaborate Facebook post in Hindi on Friday which not only called the book ‘extraordinary lies’ but also called Siddiqui a “sympathy seeker”.
