Om Puri booked for assault on wife's complaint

MUMBAI: The Versova police have booked actor Om Puri in an assault case following a complaint by his estranged wife. Nandita, Puri's second wife, has accused him of hitting her with a stick after an argument at their Versova flat last week.

Puri has been booked under IPC sections 324 (voluntarily causing hurt by dangerous weapons or means), 506 (criminal intimidation) and 504 (intentional insult to provoke breach of the peace).

Puri and Nandita were going through a rough patch when his first wife, Seema Kapoor, rekindled ties with him. He moved out of the Versova flat and started living with Kapoor in Oshiwara.

Nandita and Puri are yet to separate legally. Nandita had earlier filed a suit against him in family court, under the Hindu Adoption and Maintenance Act in a family court, demanding maintenance. Puri had not been attending court hearings and Nandita was upset because of this, said the police.

Nandita said, "He wants me to leave the house and shift to Kolkata. He has not been paying proper maintenance and has been avoiding court hearings."

Puri denied this. "My lawyer told me that I need not be present in court. She has been alleging that I don't pay her maintenance, which is a complete lie. I have proof of every payment I made to her and it is nothing less than Rs 60 lakh. She wanted most of my property, which I was ready to give because I want peace."

"She is a compulsive liar. I have never been involved in any kind of violence. Earlier, she accused me of trying to kidnap her son. Her allegation proved to be a lie," he said, adding that Nandita ruined his life by writing a book. She denied the allegations. "After my book, he got a Spielberg film."

Sunny Leone wants to act with Salman, Ranbir

Indo-Canadian actress Sunny Leone says she wants to romance Bollywood biggies Salman Khan and Ranbir Kapoor on-screen and also try her hands at comedy.

Sunny first made her appearance in TV reality show 'Bigg Boss 5' in 2011 and this led to her entry in Bollywood.
She made her debut in Hindi films with 'Jism 2' and will be next seen in 'Ragini MMS 2'. "It's been a year or so (in film industry) and I love being here. I am new to this industry, but I am open to doing romantic and comedy films. I want to romance both Salman and Ranbir.

I want to act with both of them. I liked 'Bodyguard'.. it was fun to watch Salman," she said.

The actress was talking to reporters here at a promotional event of 'Shootout at Wadala' last evening.

Sunny has done a special song, 'Laila', in the Sanjay Gupta-directed crime drama, which is loosely based on a police encounter that took place in Mumbai in 1982.

"I never thought I will be able to do this song. I was nervous, scared on the first day of shoot, but John (Abraham), Tusshar (Kapoor) and others were nice to me and it turned out to be the best experience I have had here till now," she said.

John, Tusshar, Kangna Ranaut, Anil Kapoor and Sonu Sood are playing lead roles in the film. Tusshar, who was also present at the event, was full of praise for Sunny. "She has clarity of mind and thought. She had no tantrums.
She is a combination of beauty and brains and is also a nice human being," he said.

Don't like sex comedies: Arshad Warsi

Mumbai, Feb 27 : Arshad Warsi loves to entertain people with light-hearted films, but he is not game for sex comedies and prefers to be part of "intelligent" and "smart humour".

In fact, he is still remembered for his role as Circuit in the "Munnabhai" series and his next "Jolly LLB" is a fun film too - and a clean one.

"I don't like sex comedies or over the top comedies. I like intelligent and smart humour," Arshad told IANS in a group interview.

"It is very easy to write sex comedies, it's crap. Even over the top banana peal comedy, it's typical...I don't like it," said the actor who made it big with "Tere Mere Sapne". The 1996 release saw him in a funny, yet decent role.

"I prefer to do cleaner films. I was offered all these 'Kyaa Kool Hai Hum' and all, but I refused...it's great that it works, happy that people made money. But I don't want my kid to think, 'What is my dad doing?'"

Giving reference to classic comedies like "Angoor" and "Chashme Buddoor", the actor said such films require skill to write.

"What's difficult to write is an 'Angoor', or a 'Chashme Buddoor'. You are not using anything else to make it funny...you have to rely on your intelligence," said the actor who tried serious genre with critically acclaimed films "Seher" and "Kabul Express".

But Arshad admits that often actors are forced to do something even when you don't approve of it because it works.

"Actors are the most insecure fragile people and everyone is hungry for a hit," said Arshad, who has his own sets of regrets but doesn't want to talk about them.

"I do have many regrets. I don't want to talk about them. All of us have regrets. We have all done things which we wished we hadn't. It's just that if I was in a position to make choices, I would never do those things. So now I say no most of the times," he said.

His next, Subhash Kapoor-directed "Jolly LLB", is a social satire on the legal system of the country and he plays a small-town struggling lawyer.

The 44-year-old considers himself lucky to be part of a clean film like that.

Boman Irani and Amrita Rao are there in the film too and Arshad is confident that families can watch the film without getting embarrassed.

"The movie has clean comedy, not one double-meaning line is there. It is humorous and you will not be embarrassed to watch it with your parents or anyone," he said.

"I am happy doing less work than thinking every day on the set about what am I doing? I'd rather not do that.

"When I do a film, I enjoy myself. 'Jolly LLB' will do well. When your intentions are right, the result will be right. And Jolly has that," he added.