Akshay – Twinkle’s unbuttoning act
Akshay Kumar’s wife, Twinkle, was arrested by the Vakola police and released on a bail of Rs 950 on Wednesday for her alleged obscene behaviour at a recent fashion show held at a Santa Cruz hotel.
A person, claiming to be a social worker, had alleged that the husband and wife had behaved in an obscene manner and action be initiated against them. Officials, however, said they might not pursue the case as it is “weak’’. Akshay’s trousers were supposed to be unbuttoned by some other woman on the ramp, but Akshay went to Twinkle.
This is not the first time that the self-appointed moral police of India have filed case against Bollywood celebrities on charges of obscenity. We give you a list of some (in)famous examples in the past few years.
Mallika Sherawat’s New Year dance
A couple of years back Mallika Sherawat charged Rs 75 lakhs for a 45-minute performance at a suburban hotel on the New Year’s Eve. A social worker Vinod Jain who saw her performance on television channels found her act obscene and filed a case against her on the same charges of wearing a skin-suit and dancing in a raunchy manner, which was offensive to woman and Indian culture.
Aishwarya – Hrithik smooch in Dhoom 2
Just after the release of Dhoom 2 in 2006, an Indore based advocate Shailendra Dwivedi filed a case against the makers of the movie, Yash Raj Films over the smooch scene in the film between Aishwarya Rai and Hrithik Roshan. Dwivedi felt that the scene was a clear case of obscenity that lowered the dignity of Indian women and gave a wrong picture of Indian culture.
M F Hussain paintings
Incidentally this was not the first time Dwivedi had filed a case against Bollywood personalities. Years back he had filed a suit against Dharmendra and Hema Malini, when Dharmendra claimed he had not converted to Islam and married Hema Malini as his second wife. Then he filed a case against director J P Dutta's LoC Kargil where the Indian flag was shown wrongly draped and placed on the coffins of Indian martyred soldiers. He also filed a case against painter M F Husain for drawing n*de and semi-n*de portraits of Hindu goddesses and motherland India.
Pooja Bedi in Kamasutra ad:
Speaking about sex and condoms was a strict no no in India during the 80’s and 90’s. And it was to Pooja Bedi and Marc Robinson’s credit that the Kamasutra ad for coloured condoms brought about an awareness that was lacking in India then, though it shocked the nation and created all the possible controversies and troubles. The campaign that the two came together saw an intensely intimate sequence taking place between two of the hottest models around the circuit at that point of time. Marc Robinson was already a supermodel beginning to make waves internationally too and Pooja Bedi (daughter of Kabir Bedi and Protima Bedi) was looking to succeed and make a mark for herself. Gauging by the excitement the condom ad created, Pooja surely left an indelible mark.
Mamta Kulkarni on the cover of Stardust:
She was the reigning sex symbol of the 1990’s who became the talk of the town and gained popularity when she appeared on the cover of Stardust film magazine with her arms across her breasts in the September issue of 1993. While the film magazine was lapped up like hot cakes, the actress had to face legal action from the Indian court of law apart from the pressure that was put by various moral police groups.
But Mamta wasn’t one who was going to take anything lying down. She gave as good as she got and called everyone concerned a hypocrite. Finally Mamta Kulkarni had to shell out Rs 15000 after she was convicted in July 2000. Till today her picture on the covers has been treated as one of the most sensational things to have happened in the Indian film industry
Milind Soman and Madhu Sapre in Tuff ad campaign:
This was the first time that model Madhu Sapre posed n*de but it wasn’t something new for supermodel Milind Soman who had taken off his clothes in front of the camera a few times before the Tuff shoe ad campaign in July 1995. With only a thick skinned python separating their bare bodies, Milind and Madhu who happened to be dating during that period had no issues getting close for comfort.
It didn’t take long for the ad to fall into deep trouble and with the Shiv Sena protesting loud and hard the court was forced to ban the ad campaign on the whole. The posters and hoardings of the ad too were not spared and were all taken down. It certainly wasn’t a happy ending for Milind and Madhu Sapre.
Shilpa Shetty & Reema Sen’s obscene pictures:
At times controversies come uncalled for or perhaps when you are expecting the least. That happened to actresses Shilpa Shetty and Reema Sen who were blamed of corrupting young minds when some of their pictures appeared in ‘Tamil Murasu’, a regional newspaper. While the pictures were quite passable considering Bollywood standards of recent times, an advocate from South alleged that the paper included obscene photographs of the two actresses which were apparently ‘sexy blow ups’ and ‘mediocre posters’ in their own right. The petitioner claimed that the content contained violent and harmful material not suitable for readers.
Both Shilpa and Reema did not give the trivial issue undue importance and let time take its own course. This one was passed off as a case where the accuser tried to create a controversy and gain some publicity for himself.
Mandira Bedi flagged:
Mandira Bedi always came across as a cricket crazy fan but this time she took her frenzy for the game a bit too far when she hosted a cricket show during the 2006 cricket World Cup wearing a sari that sported the Indian tricolor in the wrong way. Our country has now made it legal to wear the Indian flag on any clothing but much to Mandira’s dismay the flag on her sari was below the waist. In fact it was very close to her feet which is what infuriated fans and officials alike.
Mandira has courted controversies earlier too when once she depicted a religious tattoo and then on another occasion the television anchor wore a sari that showed ample clevage. What made this offence even more sad was that Mandira Bedi had the flag of Pakistan on her bare right shoulder.
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