The Pakistani actress we are talking about participated in Salman Khan’s show Bigg Boss 4 and gained a lot of popularity. Yes, she is none other than Veena Malik. During Bigg Boss, her romance with co-contestant Ashmit Patel was also much talked about.
Veena Malik’s bold and bindaas attitude in films made her a national celebrity overnight. In 2013, she also participated in the reality show Guinness World Records – Ab India Todega. Here, she broke the record of receiving the most kisses in a minute on her birthday.
Let us tell you that Veena Malik made her Bollywood debut in the year 2012 with the film ‘Daal Mein Kuch Kaala Hai’. Apart from this, Veena did films like ‘Zindagi 50-50’, ‘We Supermodels’, ‘Mumbai KM 3D’. She was seen doing a dance item number in ‘Tere Naal Love Ho Gaya’.
While working in Bollywood, Veena was surrounded by many controversies due to which she was also called the Controversy Queen.
Earlier, Veena had to face controversies in her own country due to her glamorous avatar. In the year 2011, FHM India published a nude picture of Veena on its cover page and also had ISI letters written on her arm. This was considered a reference to Pakistan’s spy agency Inter-Services Intelligence. Veena was heavily criticized in Pakistan for her nude shoot and ISI reference in an Indian magazine.
However, the actress had said in her defence that she had posed topless, but not without clothes and the magazine had tampered with the pictures. She dragged the magazine to court over the shoot but the matter was later settled.
Veena Malik, who is surrounded by many controversies, married businessman Asad Bashir Khan Cuttack in Dubai in 2013. However, their marriage broke down in 2018 and they got divorced. The couple has two children.
. Let us tell you that before the divorce, Veena Malik was caught in legal troubles after telecasting a fake wedding on Geo TV in 2014.
A Gilgit court had termed the programme as blasphemous and sentenced Veena, Asad and the programme host Shaista Wahidi to 26 years in prison.
He was also accused of fake marriage of Veena Malik and Bashir in that show. Along with this, he played a religious song in the wedding due to which the court made him liable for this punishment. However, this decision of the court cannot be implemented outside Gilgit.
Published at : 03 Aug 2024 11:23 AM (IST)
