{"id":80943,"date":"2022-08-30T15:56:16","date_gmt":"2022-08-30T15:56:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.bornomalanews.com\/?p=80943"},"modified":"2022-08-30T15:56:16","modified_gmt":"2022-08-30T15:56:16","slug":"bollywood-star-questioned-by-police-for-nude-shoot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.bornomalanews.com\/?p=80943","title":{"rendered":"Bollywood star questioned by police for nude shoot"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Bollywood megastar Ranveer Singh was grilled by police on Monday on charges of “obscenity” after posting naked photos of himself, in a case highlighting India's complex relationship with nudity.<\/p>\n

Singh, 37, posted in July on social media the racy images shot for New York-based Paper magazine, sparking a media frenzy in India and resulting in multiple complaints.<\/p>\n

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Mumbai police questioned Singh for more than two hours on Monday morning on charges of “corrupting youth of society” and “embarrassing women”, police said, and recorded his official statement.<\/p>\n

“The inquiry is ongoing,” senior police inspector Jaykumar Suryavanshi told AFP, without disclosing details of Singh's statement.<\/p>\n

The photos of Singh, the star of hits “Gully Boy” and “Simmba”, stretched out naked on a carpet provoked a storm of debate on India's rolling TV news.<\/p>\n

“Of course this is vulgar, we can see his bum… it's a national issue!” exclaimed lawyer Vedika Chaubey during a panel show on broadcaster NDTV, days after lodging a complaint against Singh with police.<\/p>\n

India is home to ancient sex treatise the “Kama Sutra” and erotic scenes are a common sight on ancient temples, as are ash-smeared holy men taking part in religious festivals today.<\/p>\n

But Singh, who is married to fellow superstar Deepika Padukone, is heading down a well-trodden path of complaints and charges against celebrities falling foul of vague colonial-era rules about “obscenity”.<\/p>\n

“Like they say, ‘beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder'. Obscenity very much therefore… lies in the crotch of the beholder,” said Supreme Court lawyer Faisal Sherwani.<\/p>\n

Personalities hit by complaints include fellow Bollywood megastar Aamir Khan, who was naked apart from a strategically placed cassette player in a poster promoting his 2014 movie “P.K.”.<\/p>\n

Model turned actor Milind Soman was hit with charges after baring it all in a 1995 shoe advertisement with model Madhu Sapre and a python. The charges were dropped after 14 years.<\/p>\n

Renowned artist M.F. Husain fled the country after a painting depicting a nude woman posing across a map of the country got him in legal trouble, dying in self-imposed exile in 2011.<\/p>\n

Earlier this year a professor in Kolkata said she was fired after posting photos of herself in a bikini on Instagram. The university is reportedly suing her for $12 million.<\/p>\n

Human rights lawyer and social activist Abha Singh said the laws needed to be updated.<\/p>\n

“(Indian) youth feel, ‘What is wrong? If you don't want to see, turn your eyes, close your eyes. A piece of beauty is something which you have to appreciate',” she told AFP.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bollywood megastar Ranveer Singh was grilled by police on Monday on charges of “obscenity” after posting naked photos of himself, in a case highlighting India’s complex relationship with nudity. Singh, 37, posted in July on social media the racy images shot for New York-based Paper magazine, sparking a media frenzy in India and resulting in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":80944,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\n\n\t\n