Shilpa Shetty Sent Letters To Raj Kundra in Jail, Called Him To Check Up On Him

The trailer of Raj Kundra’s UT 69 was unveiled today. Touted to be his biopic, it marks the businessman’s acting debut and traces his journey in a prison where he spent about two months in 2021. The trailer has no reference to his infamous pornographic case. For the unversed, however, back in July 2021, Shilpa Shetty’s husband was arrested and named as a key accused in a pornographic films case. He was in judicial custody and was released on bail in September that year.

When asked if he had decided to make a film on his journey while he was lodged at jail, he said, “No. Main likh raha tha ek book ke liye. It was called Memoirs of my time in jail. I was writing the notes for a book. Then he came to me. We were friends from before. He asked me ‘How was it inside? Kya huya?’ I said pura I am not gonna go through. Yeh mere notes hai, aap padh lo. Aur saath mein letters bhi the – jo shilpa mujhe likha karti thi aur main unko. He came back after 3–40 days and said ‘Humne poori film bana di’ (Then he approached me. We were friends from before. He asked me, “How was it inside? What happened?” I replied, ‘I am not going to go through the entire story. These are my notes; you can read them. Also, there were letters – the ones Shilpa used to write to me and I to her)’.”

At the trailer launch of UT 69, Raj exclusively told News18 about how his wife, Shilpa, reacted when he first expressed his desire of making a film on himself. “She was a few feet away from me when I decided to tell her that I am making a film. I didn’t want to go too close to her (laughs), he said.

Shilpa’s initial reaction wasn’t too pleasant, revealed Raj to us. “I told her that I have a script and was waiting for her answer. When I turned away from her, a flying chappal came at my face. I think she thought that the idea was a little dicey first. Maybe she thought that the film wouldn’t get made.”