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Udit Narayan accosted by `first' wife

It is yet another attempt to blackmail me, says Udit Narayan

Patna: A high-voltage drama was witnessed at the upmarket Maurya Hotel here on Friday when a woman claiming to be the first wife of Bollywood singer Udit Narayan made a futile attempt to enter his room.

Ranjana Narayan, a resident of Supaul distict in Bihar, claimed she was married to Narayan in 1984 when he was little known. She created a flutter when she defied hotel security guards and tried to force her entry into room number 401 occupied by him, hotel sources said.

The singer left the hotel soon after the incident, they added.

Ranjana, who had leaked the information about her proposed visit to the hotel to TV news channels, repeatedly knocked at the door of the room which was not opened.

"I have come here to seek justice. He kept me in the dark about his second marriage with Deepa, also a playback singer, for years and now I have come to seek my rightful place," she told reporters here.

She carried with scores of still photographs of the singer and herself besides other family members.

When asked why she was raising the matter now several years after the singer's alleged second marriage to Deepa, who has a son from Udit, Ranjana said, "Whenever I threatened to go public about our marriage, he silenced me with threat of committing suicide. Now I have no fears and I will take legal recourse."

"Look the man has no courage to come out and speak to me. He is in the room with his second wife," she said continually tapping the door of the room ignoring requests by the hotel's security staff to leave the place.

`Slanderous'

Meanwhile, singer Udit Narayan dismissed as `slanderous' the claims made by a woman in Patna that she is his first wife whom he had allegedly married in 1984.

"I don't know this woman and I have never met her before. These are attempts to malign me," he told PTI-Bhasha on phone.

Maintaining this was yet another attempt to blackmail him, Udit said, "I had received threatening calls four or five years ago but I did not pay heed to them. I was under the impression that this was common occurrence with artistes."

In Patna to attend the marriage of his niece, he said he would lodge a report with police after consulting his lawyers in Mumbai. -- PTI

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