A recent episode of Lock Upp witnessed Mandana Karimi maligning Karanvir Bohra’s image. Later Karanvir learned about her statement from Anjali and he confronted Mandana. Mandana refused to plead guilty and broke down while trying to clarify.
Now, Karanvir’s wife and actress Teejay Sidhu has slammed Mandana for her attempts to character assassinate her husband. During a recent interview with ETimes TV Teejay lashed out at Mandana and said, “You don’t understand how you can do so much damage to someone’s reputation. Mandana didn’t say Karanvir did anything wrong to her, from what I saw on the show she said that KV had called her once for script reading and ‘mujhe uski vibe theek nahi lagi’, mujhe lagta hai uska intention theek nahi hai. And if she has said what Zeeshan is saying so confidently then it is sad. She is maligning someone’s character just based on someone’s vibe. It is unbelievable. You don’t understand how you can do so much damage to someone’s reputation by making such statements. And probably she’s done just one project with KV and if you combine all the days it was not even one month. People who have worked with KV from the beginning of his career and are still best of friends with him like Shruti Seth, Simple Kaul, Aditi Malik from Shararat. We all meet so often. Shweta Tiwari and he worked on Kasautii and she still calls him her son. KV is so close to her. Surbhi Chandna did a friendship’s day story with him, Surbhi Jyoti is still good friends, they worked together in Qubool Hai. Then Mouni Roy has said so many times that KV is the most principled actor. So you need to ask the people who have been working with him for the past so many years before making such statements.”
She added, “It’s not like Mandana is a very close friend of Karanvir, she’s not. They just met in 2020. She’s the one who supported Anurag Kashyap during the entire #MeToo movement and wrote a long letter on her social media supporting him and now she’s accusing KV just on the basis of the vibe. She wrote in the letter that women are exploiting the power that we fought for and now what is she doing. What kind of a woman does this make her? If she’s such a good friend of mine which she’s claiming would she make such statements? I would never go to a person’s house if I felt their husband gave me a funny vibe. My daughters adore her, she has come to our house so often. I don’t know why she’s swearing at my children. Do not swear on my daughters, they are not your children. I don’t know if I am more shocked, or disappointed than how Mandana of all people could do this. She’s someone I trusted. I welcomed her into my family and it makes me so sad. They were never close to each other even while they were working together so there’s no point in him inviting her to our house. He is not the director of the film. Why will he invite her to come over to our house?. Everything that is being done related to films happens at the director’s office, KV is well aware of all these things and we have had this discussion long ago in our life that you have to be very careful in this industry. You should never be in a situation when you are alone with a girl. He’s very cautious about that. If Mandana really cared about me or my kids so much, how could she make such statements. Doesn’t she know it will remain on social media, internet and public domain forever and my children would grow up and see this. It’s not right, what is the basis of your statement’s vibe, what did he do to you, what did he say.”
Talking about Karanvir losing money in many projects because he trusts people, Teejay said, “She called him Jugaadu on camera whereas KV has confessed that he has been wronged by people, and how people have taken him for a ride. He has lost money and projects because he trusts people and does so much for them. His mom and dad always tell me that if I wouldn’t have come into his life they don’t know where he would be today. He doesn’t do jhol jugaad. She called him a spoilt brat, excuse me everyone who visits my house knows how hands-on he is with household chores, babies, laundry, sharing the load and it is not just for social media. He is like that in real life.”
She added, “I feel few women have nowadays started doing it conveniently. There’s a women card, victim card and you are on a reality show, it is supposed to be a fair playground for men and women. It shouldn’t be that you are on a reality show, so you’ll say or do anything just for the content. The weekend episode is still coming up, so I just hope Kangana for sure will say something. Because whenever people do such things, they get called out for not playing a victim or a woman card. Like recently Mandana was talking back to Karan Kundrra during a task and she had herself done something wrong and she was saying I am a woman and she pushed me and all. Karan was very clear that don’t play the women card. She threatened to leave the show but she came back. It’s sad because it comes from women who say I am strong, I spoil myself from my own money, I am independent and I look after myself. All these were Mandana’s statements during one of the conversations and then all of a sudden you become weak. You suddenly start calling out people saying I am being victimised, I am badly treated. That’s not right and just for the sake of content for a reality show. It makes you come across as a weak, confused player.”