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FHM India row added 10 years to my age: Veena Malik

By Staff Reporter

Published: December 10, 2011

* Veena claims she was threatened after claiming shoot was morphed

The Pakistani actor, model and reality TV star Veena Malik has says the stress caused by the FHM India scandal has aged her.

Veena Malik is suing the publisher of the magazine for doctoring her photos and creating her appearance nude when she actually posed in clothes for their newest edition.

The Pakistani model is suing the FHM India claims cover was morphed.

But, the Big Boss 4 participator lately unveiled that since she submitted her litigation, she has been confronted with character defamation if she did not decline the claims that the magazine’s cover was doctored.

“I feel totally cheated. They have included ten years to my age. ‘They confronted to sue me if I never keep quiet,” Veena Malik said.

Veena Malik, 33, claimed that she was wearing hot pants, which were removed by Photoshop on the cover of magazine.

Veena Malik seemed 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 images sparked outrage in the nation. Her father disowned her daughter and asking her to be punished over the FHM India’s ‘naked’ cover scandal.

Veena Malik said: “The photo we shoot was totally different to the one on the cover. I was wearing hot pants and they promised me they would cover my chest with multiple tattoos. Instead, they removed the hot pants.”

She also claims the FHM India’s editor Kabeer Sharma and and the journalist who interviewed her were not replying to her phone calls following the release of the nude photos, despite being in daily contact with them before shot 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.

Veena Malik had meanwhile claimed that no such video was taken and that when she noticed filming taking place, when she was fully clothed, she asked them to stop as it was not in line with the previous agreement to only shoot images.

The actress is no stranger to controversy.

In January she attacked attacked hardline clerics in Pakistan who demand modest Muslims should be suitably covered at all times.

She also launched a stringent attack on honour killings, highlighting that women were always the target and not men.

After making her name has a star in ‘Lollywood’ movies - the term used to describe films made in Lahore – she found greater fame when she took part in Big Boss 4, the Indian version of Big Brother, last year.