A lot of B-town celebs grabbed headlines for the wrong reasons this year. Here’s looking at the most shocking controversies that gripped Bollywood in 2014…
Aamir Khan nude PK poster: Mr Perfectionist became the talk of the town when his nude PK poster got leaked online and went viral. While industrywallas went gaga over Khan’s bold move, the otherwise shy and sensible actor received flak for his semi-nude avatar in his film’s poster. That’s not all! Post the release of the poster, an PIL was also filed by All India Human Rights and Social Justice Front in Supreme Court seeking ban on release of the film. Many even labelled Aamir’s act as shameful and vulgar. Khan who is known to stay away from controversies, remained in the news for days for this very reason.
Deepika Padukone cleavage news: The Bajirao Mastani actress grabbed headlines when a leading media house published a video of hers with the following headline: “OMG! Deepika Padukone’s cleavage show” on their website. Not only did Deepika lash out at them on Twitter for objectifying her, the whole of Bollywood came out in her support as well. But things turned ugly as the leading publication went ahead questioning Deepika about her reaction. The leggy beauty came back with a strong answer and rested her case. This episode went on for days and the Happy New Year actress became the only topic of discussion everywhere.
Shweta Basu Prasad prostitution scandal: In September, the nation woke up to the shocking news of the National Award winning actress being caught in a high-profile sex racket. Shweta was arrested and sent to a government rehabilitation home. Post this news, her onscreen mother from Kahaani Ghar Ghar Ki show Sakshi Tanwar came out in the support of her. While a lot was being speculated about her involvement in the prostitution scandal and as to why she took the drastic step, things took a U-turn when the Makdee actress herself cleared the air about the whole controversy. The young actress is currently working as a consultant with Anurag Kashyap’s company.
Preity Zinta and Ness Wadia molestation case: In June this year, Ms Zinta filed a molestation case against her former beau and business partner Ness Wadia, With this the ex-lovers got involved in an ugly controversy which got dragged for two months. In between, news about Ness trying to kill Preity and the latter being in touch with a Don also did the rounds. For the longest time the Dil Chahta Hai actress stayed away from limelight but with this molestation case the dimpled beauty became the centre of attention at least for mediawallas.
Arjun Rampal-Sussanne Khan love affair: After Hrithik Roshan and Sussanne called it quits, reports about the latter being close to Arjun Rampal started floating in the media. In fact. it was being said that Duggu and his childhood sweetheart parted ways because of the Roy actor and his romantic liaison with Sussanne. Everybody was talking about Arjun and Sussannne’s relationship and soon a report about their alleged affair was published in a leading daily. The report even claimed that Arjun and Hrithik’s ex-wife had zoomed for a trip abroad. This obviously didn’t go down well with Jr Roshan and Rampal. Both the actors took to Twitter and lashed out at the publication.
Priyanka Chopra’s property caught in sex racket: Ms Chopra had leased her place to Charisma Spa and Beauty Centre which was raided by cops not too long ago. A sex racket was being run by the owner of the spa and beauty centre who later went absconding. Three women were even rescued from the place. The Exotic singer immediately grabbed headlines even though she was unaware about the whole sex scandal.
Salman Khan calling Katrina ‘Kapoor’: Yes, Dabangg Khan was at his wittiest best at his lil sister Arpita Khan’s wedding. While Salman was being talked about for giving his darling sister a dream wedding, he was also in the news because he called his ex-girlfriend Katrina Kapoor at Arpita and Aayush’s sangeet. The video of him teasing Kat went viral in no time and became the hottest piece of news back then.
Diandra Soares pregnancy news: Just before the supermodel got evicted from the Bigg Boss 8 house, reports about her being pregnant started doing the rounds. Many assumptions and speculations were made by various media websites and outlets who desperately wanted to grab eyeballs. Suddenly, Diandra became talk of the town, courtesy someone’s figment of imagination.
Hrithik Roshan-Kangana Ranaut affair: When news about the honey-eyed actor dating his Krrish 3 co-star broke, everybody on internet starting talking about these two actors. The Mohenjo Daro actor even took to Twitter and rubbished these rumours. However, that didn’t stop mediawallas from talking about their alleged love affair.
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