After being accused of various crazy acts in the last two and a half weeks, a drunk and sozzled Raja Choudhary barged into Bollywood actor and ex-Bigg Boss colleague Zulfi Syed’s clothes boutique in Oshiwara recently. He abused and misbehaved with the staff and forcibly took away clothes and accessories worth Rs 10,500 from the boutique without paying. Zulfi filed a police complaint and Raja was arrested for indecent behaviour.
‘‘It’s not for the money, but the abusive words Raja used, which made Zulfi head to the police,” said the actor’s publicist Dale Bhagwagar. Both the Bigg Boss contestants were fine with each other while they participated in the reality show, but when it ended, Raja told Zulfi that he ‘‘will now show everyone who the ‘real’ Raja Choudhary is.” Before participating in the show, Raja was said to have spent a couple of months in rehabilation. This week, he was also arrested for misbehaving with eunuchs on the road at Lokhandwala, and again on charges of molesting his astrologer. Raja was recently shown the door at a party at High Lounge (a pub Zulfi runs at a Santacruz five-star hotel) after he started misbehaving with girls there. The very next day, he created the ruckus at Zulfi’s boutique.
This week, the Santacruz police also arrested him for allegedly molesting a girl in his car.Creating a record of sorts for being arrested so many times, Raja has emerged the new ‘king’ of craziness,” says Dale. ”But if this is his idea of generating publicity, it’s pathetic,” adds the PR specialist.
”He could have encashed on his popularity in Bigg Boss, but he’s simply going ballistic. From his appearance in the show, he basically seems to be a good-at-heart guy. Probably, he’s being misguided, or is too stressed out. I hope he is able to put himself together soon and doesn’t end up being a mental wreck again”.
It can be recalled that Raja Choudhary behaved well and spoke about his daughter in Bigg Boss.
And this managed to get him a lot of sympathy. But what has followed after the show seems to be a complete contrast of what he portrayed.