>I did nothing immoral or kissed Ashmit in Big Boss: Veena Malik

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Pakistani actress Veena Malik, who was an inmate in season four of Indian TV reality show “Big Boss”, has said there was nothing immoral about her relationship with Bollywood actor Ashmit Patel or any other member of the house.

“All criticism of my action is baseless, because it is being hurled without knowing the facts,” Veena said in an interview with the Express TV Friday night.

“I belong to the entertainment industry and have not done anything that I have not done before,” she said.

The actress said she was not representing Pakistan on the show but only the entertainment industry.

“I know my limits. I did not wear any revealing clothes or kissed Ashmit or any co-star in the show,” she said. “I was there to promote love and a spirit of friendship and have no regrets in doing so.”

Responding to a question about her physical intimacy with Ashmit Patel during the show, Veena denied having any such contact.

“I was as close to Ashmit as any other inmate of the house,” she said.

“I performed namaz in the Big Boss house and even Ashmit prayed with me,” she revealed, and also produced a video to prove her point.

Meanwhile, Ashmit Patel, speaking on the phone from Mumbai during the interview, said that he had prayed because he found the movements in namaz “very much like yoga”.

“I don’t believe in religion as such but have respect for all religions and keep collecting information about them,” he said, adding that he found peace in performing namaz.

An Islamic cleric, Mufti Abdul Baqi, who also participated in the interview, said: “Veena had shamed all Pakistanis and Muslims with her immoral acts during the show.”

“I want to tell her that she has not done justice to her talents by doing something which she can’t watch while sitting with her brother or son in future,” he said, asking her to mend her ways.

Veena burst into tears during the interview and said she confronted hostility from other participants like Shweta and Manoj, but the media never supported her.

“It is to my credit that I spent 84 days in the house against all odds,” she argued.

Interview host Kamran Shahid concluded the show by saying that most of the Pakistani people think Veena should not have committed such acts, particularly because of the high sensitivity towards the neighbouring country.

Veena Malik had earlier courted controversy because of her alleged relationship with embattled fast bowler Mohammad Asif.

>John Abraham wont ever cross swords with Salman

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John Abraham prefers to keep action sequences real, raw in new cop drama, Force

John Abraham won’t cross swords — or guns — with Salman Khan. Not now, not ever.

Abraham, who is acting in producer Vipul Shah’s Hindi remake of the 2003 action Tamil blockbuster Kaakha Kaakha, which starred Suriya as an encounter cop, will not play the sort of cop who can beat 50 opponents with one kick like Salman Khan did in Dabangg.

Called Force, the film will be directed by Nishikant Kamat.

Both Shah and Kamat have decided to steer clear of the Dabangg-Wanted style of action. What we will see will be a realistic, gritty action film associated with true-life cop dramas like Govind Nihalani’s Ardh Satya and Steven Soderbergh’s Traffic.

“John doesn’t want to do a Salman in Force. Both, producer Vipul Shah and director Nishikant Kamat felt that the Telugu-Tamil kind of Rajnikanth-Mahesh Babu action, which has lately been re-introduced in Hindi cinema through Salman, is done to death. That is also the kind of action we saw in Kaakha Kaakha.

The Force team felt decided to go the other way and keep the action sequences as real as they get, such as cops intercepting criminals on roads as they speed away after a crime. It’s deglamourised action, ” says a source.

>Arshad Warsi signs up for Comedy Ka Mahamukabla

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Actor Arshad Warsi has been roped in to be part of a comedy reality show.

“Signed up for a comedy show on Star TV ‘Comedy Ka Mahamukabla'”, Arshad confirmed on microblogging site Twitter.

Arshad has previously hosted the first season of “Bigg Boss” and second season of dance reality show “Zara Nachke Dikha”‘.