Is Nudity New to Indian Cinema? Hen I Was a Young School Girl, My Parents Used to Be Very Were Not Only Erotic but Semi Nudes in Raj Kapoor Films
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PM must make statement in Parliament, clarify whether... PG 05 << VIEWS & VISION OF CITY Volume: 12, Issue: 295 MONDAY, JULY 26, 2021, MUMBAI 12 Pages, ₹2 /- RNI No. MAHENG/2009/29332 www.afternoonvoice.com Dr. Vaidehi Taman afternoon_voice any actors working in the for the erotica Mindustry came in support of Raj Kundra stating that the porn industry way better than getting in prostitution due to lack of work and survival RAJ KUNDRA challenges. Raj Kundra, was arrested in connection to a pornography racket. He has now been remanded to police custody Working In Porn Is Much till July 27. Meanwhile, Shilpa Shetty has told the police that she had Dignified Than Pushed no idea about the content of the HotShots app through which Into Prostitution – Models her husband Raj Kundra CASE a l l e g e d l y d i s t r i b u t e d pornographic films. Shilpa arrested for the same case, we Shetty has said Raj Kundra is “There is tremendous rise of the Onlyfans platform. “While bold have the same investigation innocent and was not involved Indian actresses like Poonam Pandey and Sherlyn content has going on. I know what was being in producing porn content. Chopra (the first Indian to join the platform) have been increasing made under Kundra’s company. Chandni, struggling artist gained a lot of fan subscriptions for their hot videos in the OTT I have worked as a heroine in 3 from Manipal working in on Onlyfans, which include them going completely space, many films produced for Raj Kundra’s Mumbai said “Due to long lock nude. Earlier there was news of an FIR has been adult OTT platforms app. He never forced me to do down there were no stage shows registered against OTT platforms Hotshot, Ullu/Hotmasti, have been created anything, I was paid according to or films, we the small-time Chikooflix, Kukoo, Primeflix, Flizmovies/ Neuflix/ Feneo, and considering the rise in the the work I did and deserved. I actors actually went out of job. web portals www.xvideos.com and www.pornhub.com for demand for hot OTT had no issues with the work or Paying rent to arrange a two- hosting and transmitting pornographic content. But then there is content. And the number of the payment I received. I had no time meal was a very tough job. no update or change, the platforms are still running smoothly”. platforms is just increasing. objections to the content, nor did One of the model coordinators Vinay Manikam, From erotic and sensual I have any bad experience of asked to be the host of one themes in web series like working on the sets. Those films IT professional businessman for a few days, this ALT Balaji’s Gandii Baat & were released very well and was nothing but a job of call Ullu App’s Charmsukh to neither of those films were porn girl. OTT platforms are making “While we are unsure to what extent sharing hot and nude content in platforms movies. Those who have a doubt erotic series and they are liked nude content is legal or not in our country, there are a like Chikooflix and Nueflix, can use Google search and look by people more than a movie or lot of platforms out there that produce nude videos a lot is happening in the for those films and my other a series. Even if you see any regularly. Basically, we are talking about porn here. OTT space. What we need work. None of it can be series, you will find there are But there is huge list of some adult platforms that we is control on content. Unless classified as porn.” compulsory bold scenes and have found on Google that produce sex videos. Unlike there is no censorship this Meanwhile a small-time nudity”.IT professional apps like ALTBalaji and Ullu, these apps and websites feature industry will not mend their actress Sagarika Shona Suman Actress Gehana Vasisth said graphic sex scenes and often, total nudity. Take Pimp on ways”. filed a police complaint, stating “I have a small request for Primeflix, for example. This industry is very big, platform or no that she has been receiving everyone to not compare bold platform, these actors manage to reach their audiences.” several “abusive, threatening and erotica cinema with porn. Vipin Gaur, Raj Kundra and I have been Hinmanshu Jhunjhunwala Country and Politics editor CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 Is Nudity new to Indian cinema? hen I was a young school girl, my parents used to be very were not only erotic but semi nudes in Raj Kapoor films. Bollywood careful of watching movies with us on Tv or in the theater. actresses are not far behind in intensifying their character with bold and WThey used to read revives of the movies, and two decades ago nude scenes. Bollywood Actresses going naked was never an impossible even in film revivals the reviewer used to mention that the movie is worth thing, but nowadays it's almost becoming a part of mainstream cinema. watching with family, it is clean. Let it be the films in the 70s, or 80’s it all Be it in the form of an art movie, or a down-right trickery movie, began with Raj Kapoor movies where actresses never hesitated to go actresses are finding reasons to come into the limelight by shedding their seminude justifying their roles. Thereafter the advertisement era inhibitions to suit the demands of the script. introduced nudity with Milind Soman and his then rumored love affair In Raj Kapoor’s flick Mera Naam Joker (1970), Simi played a small Madhu Sapre posed nude for a steamy print advertisement for Tuff shoes role as Rishi Kapoor’s teacher Mary. However, Simi bared it all to back in 1995, which eventually led to a lot of controversy. We used to feel display her bold attitude. During this era, the Indian Censor Board did shy to watch these ads. not really allow kissing scenes. But Simi broke all the barriers, paving an Veteran actress like Vaijyanti Mala to Mandakini, all these actresses Dr.Vaidehi CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 afternoonvoice.com/editorial [email protected] afternoon_voice afternoonvoicenews MONDAY, JULY 26, 2021 Editoritis AFTERNOON VOICE, MUMBAI 02 Is Nudity new RAJ to Indian cinema? << KUNDRA PAGE 1 Dusky beauty Anu Agarwal was once a dream for the men in town. This Bollywood actress became an easy way for future Bollywood actresses. Simi overnight sensation with her debut film Aashiqui confesses to the Times of India that her westernized (1990). In 1994, she was a part of a short Indo-German upbringing did not help her fit into the industry during film, The Cloud Door. The movie saw Anu going CASE<< those times. topless in one of the scenes. She took this brave step Mandakini's waterfall scene in Raj Kapoor's Ram with an expectation to stand out of the box.Mallika PAGE 1 Teri Ganga Maili has become a benchmark and a Sherawat is a bold actress from Haryana. Her presence and vulgar" calls on Facebook and Instagram messengers reference point for any heroine who has thereafter gone in the Bollywood film industry came with much from “fake" and “automated" accounts ever since she under the waterfall in Bollywood. The white piece of criticism and apprehensions, particularly for the roles complained against Raj Kundra. Sagarika has been vocal clothing, and the only thing draped around Mandakini's she had taken up. With record-breaking seventeen about the ongoing pornography racket case involving body, went transparent under the gushing water and kissing scenes in Khwahish (2003), the sexy actress Kundra. She recently claimed that Kundra’s former PA brought to displayed more than expected. shows her comfort level by displaying passionate love Umesh Kamat contacted her with an offer for a web show. The Bollywood’s ‘Laila’ Zeenat Aman’s wet on-screen. The seductive actress gave it all for her stint “He told me I have to audition online, and I was ready for it in the Hollywood movie Hisss (2010). She went nude reincarnation of a white sari draped in Raj Kapoor’s because during the lockdown all auditions were more than once in the movie. Satyam Shivam Sundaram (1978) where she is happening online. When the audition started, he There was also a phase where parallel and generously showing her breasts, stole the show. Apart demanded I take my clothes off and that is when I refused contemporary cinema was at its peak, Shyam Benegal from revealing her assets, she was comfortable showing to go ahead,” she had alleged. was king of such movies, his movies used to have bold off her skin in various other films. Zeenat also began the Country and Politics editor Vibhu Agarwal, CEO, and content. But that era aggressively took over by hard core trend of kissing scenes in Indian cinema. Founder of Ullu says “When the subscriptions increase, so commercial cinema.Tarachand Badjyata’s typical Going forward in her career, Rekha willingly gave hot does the revenue. The most popular show on his app is scenes in a few movies. In Ghar (1979), Rekha (Aarti family movies. Then came YashRaj films, Yash Johar films, and the Indian audience had a thrilling time. But a “Kavita Bhabhi” , which is an erotica. Chandra) and Vinod Mehra (Vikas Chandra) spice up the MangoFlix, Ullu, Nueflix, GupChup, Xprime ,Aappy chemistry with some steamy scenes. Rekha also went on new breed of directors like Arurag Basu and Anurag Kashyap made it into reality cinema, going beyond the TV, Kiwi TV, Goldflix,Baloons App,11 Up Movies, to play the role of a temptress in Utsav (1984).