Click to play videoNew Delhi: Eminent author and the niece of Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, Nayantara Sahgal has spoken out on Indian Summer, the controversial film about the relationship allegedly shared by the first Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru and the wife of Lord Mountbatten, the last Viceroy of India.
Mrs Mountbatten or Edwin Mountbatten was close to Nehru, Sahgal told Karan Thapar on CNBC's India Tonight but also said that she thought that the relationship between the two was purely platonic.
Nayantara Sahgal, also the daughter of Nehru's sister Vijayalakshmi Pandit was reacting to reports that the government had cleared the script on the condition that intimate scenes between Nehru and Edwina, the wife of India's last Viceroy Lord Mountbatten, be toned down.
According to Sahgal anybody who said the pair had a sexual relationship was merely conjecturing. Indian Summer is based on Alex Von Tunzel-Mann's book by the same name.
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