New Delhi: Her reel life may be on a downswing, but in real life, actress Shilpa Shetty is making news as an angry young woman.
Shilpa, who has been issued a non-bailable warrant by a Chennai court for 'posing in an obscene manner' in photographs published in a Tamil evening newspaper, Tamil Marasu, has reacted furiously to the controversy, saying that the traditional sari should be banned if navel-showing is considered an obscenity.
The Bollywood star and the editor of the eveninger have been issued non-bailable warrants in the case.
Judicial magistrate Seetharaman had ordered them to appear on March 10 after T Dhakshinamoorthy, an advocate, filed a petition in this regard. On their absence, the court had issued several summons to the actress.
The summons was even published in newspapers in Hindi and English. But the duo did not appear in court, which forced the court to issue non-bailable warrants against the two.
The petitioner had alleged that the photos were violation of Indecent Representation of Women (prohibition) Act and Young Persons Harmful Publications Act and IPC Section 292 (sale of obscene books).
Apart from 'misleading the youth, the pictures would also increase violence against women', the petitioner contended.
Shilpa says there are more important and crucial issues that need to be tackled instead of these petty things. "Such issues certainly don't deserve headlines. And frankly, I haven't received any summons from the court. Even if something like this happens, I have full faith in our judiciary," she added.
Shilpa claims she hasn't posed for the pictures in question and that they were some stills from a Kannada film that she had done.
"It's a democratic country. What I do is my concern as long as I know where to draw the line and not offend anybody," she said.
"As far as my photographs go, what is obscene about it? If navel-showing is obscenity, then our traditional Indian outfit - the traditional sari - too should be banned."
The photograph for which the obscenity case has been slapped shows Shilpa in a freeze-frame shot from her recent superhit Kannada film ‘Auto Shankar’.
According to Shilpa’s spokesman, the photo was used by the makers from the ‘censored’ version of the movie, for promotion purposes on publicity hoardings. It was from here that the photograph was lifted by the Tamil eveninger.
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