July 16, 2005
Mobile sex shots make Bollywood camera shy
Bollywood actors these days think twice before venturing into hotels, discos or even to join a friend's birthday bash because amateur paparazzi packing mobile phone-equipped cameras have got them running scared, reports The Standard.
A series of intimate exposes of film celebrities have rocked the world's largest movie industry, based in Mumbai, but some celebrities are fighting back.
Bollywood got its first taste of what a mobile phone camera can do when leading tabloid Mid Day earlier this year published lip-locking pictures it claimed were of top actress Kareena Kapoor and actor boyfriend Shahid Kapoor shot by a fan at a Mumbai pub. Both actors denied the pictures were of them, though Mid Day continued to back its story.
A few months later another clip was circulated, supposedly of an upcoming actress in an intimate love-making pose with her actor boyfriend.
Bollywood's reigning sex siren, Mallika Sherawat, is the latest to be caught in a controversy over multimedia messaging service phones, which allow a user to create, send and receive text messages that can also include an image, audio or a video clip.
A graphic new MMS eight-minute clip of a sex act allegedly between Sherawat and a foreigner has been in circulation through mobile phones in India in the past week or so, infuriating the actress who has taken the matter to police."
Related: 'MMS episode harmed my dignity'
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