Om Puri "livid" over Ahuja comparison

Om Puri has spoken out against the revelations made by his wife in her new biography of him.

The East is East actor is angry that his journalist wife Nandita has written about his long-running affairs with his two maids in Unlikely Hero: The Story Of Om Puri.

He told Mumbai Mirror: "Why highlight these aspects when there’s so much more to me? I had hoped when my life was chronicled it would be an inspirational story."

Nandita responded to the newspaper: "My book on my husband is a biography, not pornography. The book is about Om, the man and the actor.

"He had sex as an adolescent with his maid and then he had a long liaison with the other lady who was also a maid.

"This was his way of coming out of his other relationships and demolishing class differences. If Om has any objection to her being called a maid he’s just being unrealistic."

Of her husband's reaction, she said: "He was livid. The double escapades with the two maid servants has made Om feel he’ll be compared to Shiney Ahuja."