Bollywood reacts to Preity’s fight with Ness Wadia

By Subhash K. Jha -

June 19, 2014 - 10:46 AM IST

It can safely be said that Preity is isolated from her colleagues from the film fraternity in her fight with Ness Wadia.

Many of the people associated with her chose not to comment and even asked this writer to not to mention their names in any write-ups related to the Preity-Ness tussle.

Prem Raj, the director whom she gave her lavish fiasco Ishkq In Paris to direct last year and whom she supported through his grave illness lapsed into cheap diplomacy saying, "I've decided not to comment over this issue. I just hope Ness and she make peace."

Right. Ok then.

Director Tanuja Chandra who directed Preity in her first major author-backed film Sangharsh was more forthright. "I imagine she must have thought a great deal about it and hasn't done this on an impulse. Like all women in the country she has every right to approach authorities if she feels her individual space has been violated. We must wait for the legal process to move forward and avoid playing judge and jury ourselves."

The outspoken Pooja Bedi for once decides to sit on the fence saying, "Neither Ness nor Preity comes across as a liar. Both are such lovely people. So it just very unfortunate that it's all turning out the way it is. Having said this I feel it is for the courts to pass a verdict, not us."

Neetu Chandra feels the matter is personal. However, she also feels Preity is not the kind to raise a hue and cry unnecessarily. "As far as I know her, she is a no-nonsense person and leads her life with dignity. A break-up is never pleasant. Both the partners have to be very careful about preserving one another's self-respect in public after the break-up, for the sake of what they shared in the past."

Though she admires Preity's spirit parliamentarian Moon Moon Sen feels the matter should have been sorted out between them. "Maybe there's a history of abuse and now it has erupted in a public place to embarrass both of them. Surely the two can sit and down and sort it out. No matter how we look at it is entirely their business."

Shailendra Singh feels it's a private matter and should've been kept that way. "It's unfortunate that a girlfriend-boyfriend fight has a national importance. There are far more serious matters awaiting the nation's attention."