After a long legal battle, Kaizad has finally moved on. He will now direct Sunny Leone and Sachin Joshi in a film called Jackpot.
The 45-year-old re-visits the incident for the first time. "I’ve never spoken about what happened because I didn’t understand it myself. We tried to save the injured girl's (Nadia Khan) life in the best way we could. Two friends of mine took her to the hospital where they were told they had to fill a punchnaama (FIR). The funny thing was, we went to the police to tell them exactly what happened. We didn’t know how to deal with it.”
Kaizad came away disillusioned from the incident. “I lost six years of my life. That’s how long it took for the case to be closed. I just wanted closure, whatever the verdict. Finally, the judges were very fair to me,” he says.
“Alexandra and I were married for just five months when this happened," he continues. "Though she was new to the marriage and the country, she stood by me like a pillar of strength. My family was with me, including my extended family of very crazy Irani cousins. I met cousins and relatives I had never met before.”
Looking back, Kaizad says, “After what happened, I just went up to the Himalayas, where I had grown up, and meditated. I also travelled all over
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