I want to see how Prachi played me, says Naureen

Mohammad Azharuddin’s first wife Naureen is looking forward to watching the biopic on the former cricketer’s life, Azhar, that released on Friday. Speaking to The Asian Age evening, Naureen said, “I am very keen on watching the film. I don’t know when I’ll manage, but when I get the time I will surely go. I want to see how Prachi Desai played me. Also, after our divorce, there has been a lot of transformation in Azhar and hence I would like to see this movie.”

Naureen has watched the trailer and clearly wants to reserve comments on the movie only after viewing it. She is yet to understand how much of the film has been fictionalised. She says, “I was innocent then and believed in him as he was very religious. However, a couple of days ago I watched the trailer on YouTube. The scene in which Azhar says that his century is dedicated to Sangeeta is not true at all. As long as I was in that house, he never said that.”

Meanwhile, Naureen and Azhar’s son, Asaduddin, had watched the film, she reveals. “My son watched the movie with his dad on Thursday but I didn’t go to the premiere because I didn’t want to go when my son was going with his father and friends,” she says.

Later, when The Asian Age contacted Asaduddin, he said, “I was with my father on the day of the release. The movie was great. The actors played the characters really well. I will surely recommend it to my mother.” Asaduddin, who was once being coached by his Azhar, has quit cricket, after suffering an elbow injury. He says, “I don’t play anymore after my elbow injury. I am now in the movie industry. We are producing a Telugu film that will be released later this year. The shooting will commence mid-July.”