What is Om Puri doing?

Sex sells. That's a pretty well-known fact. It isn't a revelation. It's time someone told Om Puri and his wife Nandita to stop pretending.

What is Om Puri doing?

Sex sells. That's a pretty well-known fact. It isn't a revelation. It's time someone told Om Puri and his wife Nandita to stop pretending. I find the noises they are making, about the media only highlighting the scandalous portions of her biography on her husband highly amusing. Am I expected to believe that they are so simple that they don't know that biographies and autobiographies have to be controversial in nature, otherwise no one is interested in publishing or reading them?

Publishers give out the shocking excerpts out to the media to create sensation about the book before it hits the stores. If they'd highlighted facts about her husband's struggle to become an actor, who would've been interested in the book? Doesn't everyone struggle? What's new about that? But yes, put out the fact that he slept with the maid, and suddenly everyone is listening.

Now, the actor is pouring his heart out in interviews, saying "Nandita has embarrassed me and how she didn't tell me about what she is writing." His outburst isn't doing much to salvage his name, but it is definitely sullying his marriage. What kind of a husband blasts his wife in front of the media, and what kind of wife exposes her hubby's darkest secrets without discussing it with him first? It makes you wonder if this is a carefully designed tactic by the Puris to sell the book.

I am not the only one questioning that. Barkha Dutt, who was the first one to interview Nandita, writes on Twitter, "Om Puri claims wife didn't let him read a word of manuscript!!! Funnily, publishers and she didn't complain at the time of interview." Her outburst after the story was funny because the very same extracts of the book appeared in two Delhi papers Tehelka and Mail Today way earlier.

Even Shobhaa De commented on her blog, "This whole 'public spat' in print between Om and Nandita is beginning to read like the other, equally sensational stunt staged by Malaika Arora and her husband Arbaaz, which talked about their 'separation'. That had turned out to be a poorly scripted PR strategy to promote a product they were endorsing as a couple." She goes on to say, "Om's admirers will not think less of him for those early sexapades, whether with maids or co-stars. But they will feel let down if his 'rage and shock' at the contents of the book turn out to be marketing gimmicks and nothing more." I completely agree with Ms De.

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