Apparently, starring in XXX flicks in India can land you in a heap o’ trouble:
Nov 4: A local beauty queen was on Thursday arrested and five others booked for being allegedly involved in flesh trade and production of pornographic CDs in Jammu, police said.
The city police registered an FIR against six persons, including Miss Jammu Anara Gupta and five others for offences under the cinematography, immoral trafficking and information technology acts, they said.
Like in America, notoriety can bring opportunity:
Former Miss Jammu Anara Gupta, currently at the centre of a pornography scam uncovered by the Jammu and Kashmir police, is being wooed by Bollywood producers to appear in their films.
Anara, who was crowned Miss Jammu in 2001, had dreams about making it big in the Hindi film industry. But the 18-year-old’s world came crashing down after police arrested her for appearing in pornographic films that she says she was forced into doing…
State Times, one of Jammu’s leading newspapers, carried a front-page story saying Anara was being flooded with requests to appear in films.
Also like Amreeka? Litigiousness:
Former Miss Jammu Anara Gupta, who was involved in a pornography scandal, has filed a Rs 1 crore suit against the Jammu and Kashmir police for “coercing” her to make confessional statements. In her petition filed before the High Court here Wednesday, Gupta said police had damaged her reputation and kept her in illegal confinement…
Her sudden turnaround on Wednesday took many by surprise. She had been saying in media interviews during her police custody that influential people had exploited her by playing on her ambition to become a movie star.
Wait, so what happened again?
In the suit she alleged that she was pushed into the unwanted spotlight by police.
Oh. But what about the Hilton-esque wideo?
She asserted that she had nothing to do with the pornographic tape in which police said she had played a role.
Gupta said her statements to the media were manipulated by torture. “I was coerced into making those statements admitting to my role in the CD,” she said.
Though Turbanhead valiantly tried to simplify it for me, I’m still confused…but hey, it had to do with porn, so I figured y’all needed to read it. 😉
…but hey, it had to do with porn, so I figured yÂ’all needed to read it. 😉 Good find and, yes, porn updates are always a welcome post.
Fleshbot dug up a link to a discussion board at indiatimes.com that they say will give “you a good sense of the way porn and celebrity culture are colluding in South Asia.”