The Pakistani actor, model and reality
TV star's nude FHM spread has created an outrage in her home country. While she
has sued the magazine over the issue, the mag in turn has sent her a legal
notice.This is one controversy Veena Malik is finding hard to 'cover'! Here're
other soups she's been in before.
Veena Malik has claimed that the stress
caused by the FHM India scandal aged her by almost ten years. The Pakistani
model, is suing the publishers of the magazine for doctoring her photograph and
making it appear nude for their latest edition.
However, the Bigg Boss 4 contestant
recently revealed that since she filed her lawsuit, she has been threatened
with character defamation if she did not drop the charges.
“I feel completely cheated. They’ve
added ten years to my age. ‘They threatened to sue me if I don’t keep quiet,”
the Daily Mail quoted her as saying.
The 33-year-old has claimed that she was
wearing hot pants, which were removed by Photoshop on the cover of FHM India.
Malik had appeared naked on the cover of
the December issue of FHM India with just her arms and legs covering her
modesty, sporting a tattoo of the initials ‘ISI’ on her arm, a reference to
Pakistan’s intelligence agency.
The image had sparked huge outrage in
her homeland, with her father disowning her and asking her to be punished.
“The image we shot was completely
different to the one on the cover. I was wearing hot pants and they promised me
they would cover my upper body with multiple tattoos.
“Instead, they removed the hot pants,”
she said.
The actress has alleged that the
editor-in-chief Kabeer Sharma and the journalist who interviewed her were not
responding to her calls even though prior to the shoot they would converse with
her regularly.
“I did not sign any contract and refused
to until I was given final approval of the images. I was never sent the
pictures but I was assured they were the same shots taken on the shoot in
November.
“I was cool with those pictures because
I felt they were artistic and beautiful. They should have waited for my
authorisation but they didn’t.
“There was only one week between the
shoot and publication - they were obviously in a rush to print them without my
consent,” she said.
Meanwhile, Sharma has strongly denied
the allegations that the pictures are doctored and that the model has been
threatened, insisting that Malik has given contradictory accounts of the shoot.
“It’s important to note Ms Malik has
been dragging the magazine’s name through muck by making false and baseless
allegations and we look at it very, very seriously,” he said.
“I invite Ms Malik to furnish one shred
of evidence, SMS or a witness to support her allegations which are as concocted
as the ones she’s been making all week.
“No one in FHM has had any conversation
with Ms Malik directly or indirectly to make this “imagined threat”.
“The one message that was sent to her
was one that told her she could call the office landline if she wanted to have
a conversation.
“Ms Malik was more than comfortable with
the filming, it was only when the cover and the grenade shots were done was the
videographer asked to stop filming to make the team more comfortable (not her).
“She did not even once ask him to stop
filming,” he added.
