Bollywood actress reported missing by manager last week, has received death threats over magazine photos
A Bollywood beauty whose racy magazine cover photo sparked outrage in Pakistan was reported missing Friday, but has turned up safe and sound in a hotel in India.
Veena Malik, who posed nude for the latest issue of the India version of FHM magazine, apparently vanished last week, causing her manager, Pratiek Mehta, to report her missing, according to London's Daily Mirror.
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AFP/Getty Images Veena Malik attends Indian Bollywood actor Ashmit Patel's birthday party in Mumbai. |
He was concerned because he said she told him she was feeling depressed and had received several death threats over the photos.
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FHM Magazine Alternate version of the FHM Magazine December 2011 cover with Pakistani actress Veena Malik. |
The report led to rampant speculation in the Indian media, including claims that she had snuck back into her home country of Pakistan garbed in a burqa because her visa in India had expired.
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The 33-year-old - who is in India filming a movie - has since emerged and her spokesperson said she was safe in a hotel in Mumbai.
"Touched base with Veena this morning, she is fine," the spokesperson said, according to the Mirror.
Malik, a Muslim, posed for the men's magazine topless with a tattoo on her shoulder of Pakistan's dreaded intelligence agency, ISI. Conservative clerics in Pakistan called the photos an insult.
The model, who gained fame on the Pakistani version of "Big Brother," said the images were doctored and is suing the magazine.
"I agreed to a photo shoot and having an ISI tattoo in a humorous way but I did not have any nude photos. My pictures have been morphed," she told a Pakistani television station.
FHM denies her claims.
"Maybe she is facing some kind of backlash, so maybe that's why she is denying it," FHM India editor Kabeer Sharma told Agence France-Presse. "We have not photoshopped or faked the cover."
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