“We have stopped seeing one another for a while now. Some time back she called me to say she wanted money, about Rs 1 crore, to buy a house. (This, after she had complained against me to the police.) I called up a banker-friend and stood as her guarantor and got her a loan of Rs 50 lakh.
Then, I gave her Rs 55 lakh cash from my pocket. Of this, she has returned Rs 25 lakh. She still owes me Rs 30 lakh. I’ve also spent Rs 10 lakh on her sister’s plastic surgery, after the acid attack. But I’m not asking for that back. I paid all the bills. When Mukesh Bhatt asked back for her signing amount of Rs 50,000, I paid that for her too. I’ve written all that off. But I’d like to have the money that I lent her for her house.”
The bitterness has now made way for a calmer acceptance of the situation. He says, “We were as good as husband and wife. I was actually building a house for both of us on Yari Road. We lived together for three years at a friends’ place. I used to show her a lot of movies.” He continues, “Kangana didn’t have a penny when I met her. I saw her the first time on the road. She was on the verge of a nervous breakdown. It was June 27, 2004. She was drenched, and sitting on a bike with a guy from the Asha Chandra Acting Institute. I was supervising the construction of a building.
“Earlier she claimed I was like a father. Now she claims Adhyayan is like her brother. What can we say about Kangana Ranaut? A few days before Adhyayan’s premiere she called me up and whispered sweet-nothings about how she wanted to be proud of me, etc, etc.
By Subhash K Jha
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