The answer to the question above would be: More or less. The kerfuffle this week over the sudden withdrawal of the talented, versatile actor Nawazuddin Siddiqui’s memoir An Ordinary Life (Penguin; Rs 599) before its official release is damaging all round — to him, his co-writer Rituparna Chatterjee, and the publisher.
The kiss’ n’ tell bits are brief, concerning his liaisons with two actresses, Sunita Rajwar and Niharika Singh. He was jilted by both but his confessions are farcical and foolishly egregious. The former drove him to contemplate throwing himself under a train; in the case of the latter he describes
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