{"id":412,"date":"2016-07-05T06:03:55","date_gmt":"2016-07-05T06:03:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/13.201.39.237\/?p=412"},"modified":"2026-07-17T13:50:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T13:50:09","slug":"theres-something-about-sylvia-rustom-nanavati-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/?p=412","title":{"rendered":"There\u2019s Something about Sylvia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><span class=\"dropcap\">A<\/span>few years ago, I was commissioned by director Soni Razdan and producer Pooja Bhatt to write the story of a film called (straightforwardly enough) <\/p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>Love Affair.<\/em>\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Like the recently released <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rustom<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, the script of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Love Affair<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is based on what is known today as the Nanavati scandal, an infamous love triangle-cum-murder trial that shocked the nation in 1959. <\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The facts are public knowledge: On April 27 of that year, Naval Commander Kawas Nanavati came home from months of offshore duty to find his wife Sylvia in the throes of a passionate affair with a local businessman and notorious playboy, Prem Ahuja. Nanavati confronted Ahuja, demanding that the latter marry Sylvia and take responsibility for the Nanavatis\u2019 three young children. When Ahuja scoffed: \u201cI don\u2019t have to marry every woman I sleep with\u201d, Nanavati lost his officer-like cool and shot Ahuja thrice in cold blood. The courtroom drama that followed was nothing short of sensational, with salacious reporting by the tabloid \u201cBlitz\u201d, and a jury that was so swayed by emotion (and the good looks of the dashing Kawas!) that Nanavati found himself acquitted of first-degree murder. Needless to say, this turned out to be the last trial by jury in India. <\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Subsequently, Nanavati was found guilty by a higher court and served three years in prison. Upon his release, he, Sylvia (the marriage intact) and their children, left India for Canada and never returned. <\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At first, I wasn\u2019t excited about turning this story into <\/span>a celluloid saga<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. It had been done before in potboilers like <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yeh Raaste Hain Pyar Ke<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Achanak,<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and the narrative treatment in both these films was saccharine and sanctimonious. Nanavati was a man holier than the Pope, more patriotic than Gandhi. The villainous, leery Ahuja was a sleazebag who deserved the fate of being shot to death in his bedroom with nothing but a towel draped around his waist. <\/span>\n<blockquote class=\"quote--center\">But with <em>Rustom<\/em> already in theatres, and the script of <em>Love Affair<\/em> in a vault, Sylvia will remain, in public consciousness, a meek, hazy enigma at best.<\/blockquote>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And Sylvia? She interested me least of all \u2013 appearing as the repentant wife in a light sari, doe-eyes downcast and awash with tears, a distressed damsel begging for a second chance at marriage and forgiveness for the cardinal sin of adultery. <\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Still, I started my research. <\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the late 1940s, Sylvia was a mere teenager in England when she met the handsome Kawas Nanavati. They fell in love, returned to India to marry and settle down, and child bride Sylvia soon became a mother of three. Nanavati, it appeared, was a loyal husband, but was away for long periods on naval duty. The young and sensuous Sylvia felt neglected, older than her 28 years, and an outsider in a rigid foreign culture. She was far from home, saddled it seemed by babies and the demands of a live-in mother-in-law, and found it hard to make friends in the clique culture that was elite south Bombay. <\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A chance encounter with socialite Mamie Ahuja would breathe fresh air into Sylvia\u2019s stale life. Mamie introduced Sylvia to her brother Prem, a charismatic and sexy bachelor, and there was instant chemistry. Prem wooed Sylvia with invitations to parties and soulful conversations during long, intimate drives. Soon, Sylvia and Prem became lovers. Despite her attachment to her husband and children, Sylvia went against the grain of conventional women of the time \u2013 she gave in to the natural desire she felt for her attentive suitor, unleashing rather than suppressing the sexual fire within her. <\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kawas Nanavati discovered the affair months later. By then, Sylvia sensed that Prem was a philanderer, and that the affair was doomed. But Sylvia, honest and genuinely conflicted by the situation, confessed to her husband that she\u2019d fallen in love with Prem. Nothing could have prepared her for what was to come next: Prem\u2019s murder at the hands of a stoic but rage-fuelled Kawas. \u00a0\u00a0<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">How would Sylvia have felt? Surely the idea of her husband killing her lover would have left her just a little bit more than shell-shocked? Perhaps even angry and betrayed. When Kawas Nanavati confronted Prem Ahuja with a loaded gun, Sylvia\u2019s fate and legacy was sealed. She would forever be relegated to the role of the adulteress with blood on her hands. \u00a0<\/span>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">***<\/span><\/p>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When the case came to trial, Sylvia\u2019s narrative was already written. On the first day of the trial of KM Nanavati vs the State of Maharashtra for the murder of Prem Ahuja, Sylvia\u2019s persona was fragile and shaky and reams were written about how she was overcome by guilt and longing for her dead lover. Kawas, on the other hand, strode into court, a man of steel principle, a hero to millions of romance-starved ladies who wished their husbands had the guts to kill for them. \u00a0<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But it was here that Sylvia\u2019s story took an interesting turn. Instead of taking up the mantle of the queen of tragedy, she found her own iron resolve. Sylvia stood by Kawas. Her lover may have been dead, but Sylvia decided to make herself responsible for her husband\u2019s predicament, and the survivor in her rallied for the sake of their marriage, family and future. <\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For me, this is where the character of Sylvia comes to life, and starts to shift shape from pampered, protected wife to the proverbial pillar of strength. It was Sylvia who had to keep things going now. The Nanavatis were outcasts. Kawas\u2019s career was an uncertain mess, the children were taunted at school, and headlines got more lurid by the day (\u201cThree Shots That Shook The Nation!\u201d, \u201cLove, Sex and Betrayal!\u201d, \u201cNow Buy Your Very Own Prem Ahuja Bath Towel\u201d, and \u201cNanavati Revolver\u201d). There were no more parties \u2013 Sylvia was broke and a social pariah. In the midst of all the drama, Kawas\u2019s aged mother passed away and the family, it seemed, could not have been more shattered. \u00a0<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But somehow Sylvia, a tough English girl, kept her head above water. She survived on borrowed funds, nurtured her bewildered children, and supported a shaken Nanavati in court. Whatever turmoil she felt within, she kept her outer demeanour intact. Not only did she fully back her husband\u2019s character, she also told the truth about her feelings of lust for Prem \u2013 in this way, she did not present herself as a na\u00efve, passive victim of a manipulative playboy, but as a woman who had made the choice to have an affair. \u00a0\u00a0<\/span>\n\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-12936\" src=\"http:\/\/13.201.39.237\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1471424664.jpg\" alt=\"RustomCollage\" width=\"825\" height=\"407\" \/>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When the High Court sentenced Kawas to life in prison in 1960, Sylvia was bruised but not beaten. It was then\u00a0that she chose to actively campaign for her husband\u2019s release.<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sylvia and defence lawyer Rajni Patel approached a young, rising lawyer for the prosecution, Ram Jethmalani. It appeared as though Nanavati could get a Presidential pardon and be freed, if a deal could be struck. This involved the simultaneous release of a minor criminal, a Sindhi called Bhai Pratap. By now, the case had become a political hot potato between the Parsi (Nanavati) and Sindhi (Ahuja) community, and a move like this would appease both sides. <\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But Nanavati\u2019s release also depended on Mamie Ahuja\u2019s consent. As Ram Jethmalani remembers today, it was Sylvia, Mamie\u2019s one-time friend, who ultimately convinced a hostile Mamie to let \u201cbygones be bygones\u201d. <\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sylvia\u2019s substantial role during the proceedings has never been shown on film or in the countless pulp fiction tales that have been spun from the scandal. But when Nanavati walked out of jail on a summer day in 1965, the Sylvia by his side was no longer a dependant wife. She was a true partner who had fought to save her husband \u2013 and succeeded. <\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Love Affair<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, I wanted to present Sylvia as the active protagonist that she was, and not the decorative fluff that she is in macho, jingoistic <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rustom<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, which I watched with some disbelief. <\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For me, Sylvia is the story, the key to the interlocked destinies of both the men in her life, the destroyer and the sustainer in equal measure, the character who embarked on the deepest emotional journey and bore the hardest life lesson.<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But with <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rustom<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> already in theatres, and the script of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Love Affair<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in a vault, Sylvia will remain, in public consciousness, a meek, hazy enigma at best. At worst, she is a spineless, sobbing shadow, eclipsed by the blinding white purity of her husband\u2019s image. Modern Bollywood, for all its talk of evolving strong female characters, has managed to overlook yet another one.<\/span>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In &#8220;Rustom&#8221;, Sylvia Nanavati is portrayed as a repentant wife, awash with tears. 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