Raj Kundra Says Shilpa Shetty Told Him 'Let's Leave India' After Porn Case: 'Log Bade Bade Kaand...'

Raj Kundra is currently gearing up for his acting debut with a film titled UT – 69. The movie is based on the time Raj spent in jail in 2022 after he was arrested in connection to a pornography case. In a recent interview, the businessman revealed that his actress wife Shilpa Shetty had suggested they should move abroad after the pornography case but it was he who decided not to.

“My wife was actually the first person to say, ‘Do you want to live abroad Raj? You left everything in London, you were born and brought up there, you moved here because I wanted to be here. But if you want, I can make things work and let’s leave the country, let’s go abroad.’ I told her that I love India and won’t leave. Log bade bade kaand kar ke, hazarao crore kamake desh se nikal jaata hai (people do big crimes, take thousands of crores and leave country), but I have done nothing so I won’t leave the country,” he told Indianexpress.com in an interview.

Talking about the time he spent in Jail, Raj Kundra added, “I had really broken down, enough to probably end things inside. I won’t use the word, but I was in a… There was so much humiliation, reputational damage. Because of me, media went behind my wife, children and parents. That was painful. I knew what was going on outside.”

For the unversed, Raj Kundra was arrested in July 2021 in connection to the alleged creation and uploading of pornographic films on mobile applications. He was granted bail after almost two months.

Later in 2022, Kundra wrote to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) claiming that he was innocent and alleged that it was all ‘personal vendetta’ of a businessman who connived with police officers to get him arrested. Kundra had also requested the central agency to probe the case and had further claimed that he was framed by the senior officers of the Mumbai Crime Branch.