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Rape charge: Model comes out in the open
July 23, 2004
Mumbai - The allegations are serious: Rape and threatening to kill. That’s the
police complaint, Preeti Jain (24), a model and a small-time actress lodged
against Bollywood director, Madhur Bhandarkar, yesterday.
“I had come to Mumbai to enter films five years ago. Obviously, the crime is so
gruesome that I had to come out in the open and file such a heinous charge,”
said Jain. She said that she had been involved in a long-term relationship with
Bhandarkar. But on the pretext of marriage and roles in his films, he had taken
advantage of her and raped her.
Preeti further said that in the last couple of months, when she realised that
Bhandarkar was not keeping his promise, she’d tried to distance herself from
the relationship. But he threatened to kill her and her family, if she did not
comply with his wishes.
Bhandarkar has termed Jain’s charges as a publicity stunt.
Sources from the film industry agree. “Bhandarkar had known Jain since 1999. He
had promised her a movie career, besides marriage.
Neither worked out as Bhandarkar got married earlier this year to his longtime
girlfriend, Renu Namboodiri, and did not cast Jain in his next film, Page
Three. So, the peeved starlet went ahead and filed rape charges against the
director.”
According to the police Jain had come to Mumbai in 1999 from Delhi and came in
contact with Bhandarkar some time earlier this year. Police sources said that
the accused would be approaching the sessions court for an anticipatory bail
before coming in for questioning.
Madhur Bhandarkar has directed Bollywood movies like Chandni Bar, and the
recently released Aan – Men at Work
Who is Preeti Jain?
“I was born in Cairo, but have lived in Paris, London and even Karachi,” says
Preeti Jain, a 24-something beauty, who came to Mumbai five years ago from
Delhi, to make it big in the film industry. In these five years, she did the
rounds of several producers’ offices.
Besides a couple of B-grade film producers, Saawan Kumar Tak admitted he had
met her in the past. She had also made minor appearances in films like
Bhandarkar’s critically acclaimed, Chandni Bar and Satta and lesser known music
videos and commercials.
She was set to debut as the leading lady in the relatively unpublicised film
Sab Kuchh, directed by the prolific B R Ishara, due to release shortly.
She is a resident of Ganga Jamuna Society, Yari Road, Versova, and lives with
her father. Her mother expired a few years ago.
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