Mumbai, January
24
By Our Bollywood
Reporter Ms Divya
Chawla
An Indian actress who sparked outrage by saying
Indians should not expect brides to be virgins said on Friday she planned to sue
Maxim magazine for publishing a photograph of her face above the body of a
scantily dressed woman.
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Khushboo, who uses one name, said representatives of the British men's
magazine had called her to apologize for the photograph, which appeared in the
publication's inaugural Indian edition this month.
The photograph showed
a woman in a transparent bra and panties and was clearly doctored and stamped
with the message "100 per cent fake." A quote beneath the photograph declared
her a virgin, but made clear she was no sexual innocent.
"The photo and
language used are in bad taste," she said over telephone from Chennai. "I'm
really upset and angry ... I'm not going to let them go scot free."
"The
damage has already been done. My lawyers will file a case next week," she
said.
Khushboo's lawyer, R. Karthikeyan, said the actress would file a
defamation suit and lodge an obscenity complaint against the magazine's British
publishers and the editors of the Indian edition. Each charge carries a maximum
penalty of two years in prison.
"They may say it's 100 percent fake, but
will a common man know?" said Karthikeyan.
"The foreign publishers can't
escape liability. It's published in India and against an Indian citizen." Xavier
Collaco, the publisher of Maxim's Indian edition, said the magazine had no
intention of belittling Khushboo, adding the magazine was meant to be an
"overall light read for men." "We'd like this to be resolved amicably," he said.
Simon Clays, Maxim's international manager in London, declined immediate
comment.
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Khushboo said Maxim's publishers probably thought she was an easy
target after she made headlines in September for telling an Indian magazine that
society needs to rid itself of the expectation that brides be
virgins.
She later apologized for the remarks, which offended sections of
this deeply conservative society.
Local editions of Western magazines are
increasingly common in India, though sexual content is scaled back for more
conservative Indian readers.
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