Veena Malik, who had been reported missing since Friday, has been found to be safe and staying in a hotel in Mumbai.
She had apparently vanished last week, causing her manager, Pratiek Mehta, to report her missing.
Her disappearance led to speculation in the Indian media that she had gone back to Pakistan dressed in a burqa because her visa in India had expired.
Now, however, her spokesman announced that she is staying in a hotel in Mumbai.
"Touched base with Veena this morning, she is fine," the Daily Mail quoted Mehta has saying.
The Pakistani actress and model had been receiving death threats after posing for the Indian edition of FHM magazine with nothing but an ISI tattoo on her arm.
Malik had said that she had not posed nude and that the magazine had airbrushed off the hot pants she was wearing.
Veena Malik gets death threats in Pakistan nude cover shoot row
Actor in airbrushing row after appearing to wear only a tattoo spelling initials of Pakistani spy agency on Indian FHM cover
Veena Malik denies agreeing to a topless photoshoot for Indian FHM. Photograph: Arif Ali/AFP/Getty Images The Pakistani actor at the centre of a controversy over a "nude" picture on the cover of an Indian magazine has hit out at the "stone age" attitudes that have seen her plagued by threats and condemnation.
Veena Malik appeared on the cover of the Indian edition of FHM magazine apparently adorned with nothing but a tattoo that reads ISI – the initials of the military's feared spy agency.
She claims the magazine airbrushed out the thong she was wearing. But her appearance has led to accusations that she has betrayed her country; her father has disowned her, and she has received death threats, in a country where Islamist extremists are a genuine danger.
Even the military establishment has got involved. The Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) is blamed in India for sponsoring terrorism.
A text message sent to local journalists from the Pakistani military's public relations machinery complained that the affair was "the height of humiliation for Pakistan, done by a Pakistani on Indian soil".
In an emotional interview with the Guardian from Mumbai, where she is working on three films, Malik said that despite the threats, she was not scared and would return to Pakistan.
"The things I have done in life, I have the guts to stand by. This is my body; this is my life," she said. "This is my body, and I will take advantage of it if I want to. And it's a very beautiful body.
"But I will not allow any man out there to morph my pictures and put it on the cover, just to sell their magazine. They are gaining. I'm losing."
The magazine the Indian version of the British men's monthly FHM maintains that Malik consented to the nude picture, which appears on the front of the December issue.
The actor and the magazine are unable even to agree on her age, with the magazine saying she is 33 while she insists she is still in her 20s. They are suing each other for £3m in a bitter exchange of lawsuits. She revealed that she had even consulted a UK law firm about taking FHM to court in Britain.
Malik has been vilified at home, and argues that no-one is willing to hear her side of the story.
"I'm living my life on my own terms," she says. "If somebody does not agree with that, if somebody does not want to understand, it's pretty OK with me. I did not commit any crime in my life.
"If some mullah on the TV today says shoot the girl, they will shoot me. But the guy who removed my clothes using some technology, at least say something against him.
"This attitude, I'm sorry, is in the society. When they say they have become modern, grown up, that's wrong. They still live in the stone age."
In a country that is becoming more conservative, women are increasingly covering up in Pakistan, some by choice, others through intimidation. Nudity is unknown, even in Pakistan's "porn" films.
Malik said that she was wearing the bottom half of a bikini during the photo shoot and denied that she was even topless, as her hands were hiding her breasts.
"My choice was a bikini shoot. And I did a bikini shoot. They removed my bikini, later on. It was not a topless, and not a nude, shoot. It was a completely covered shoot," said Malik. "When the upper portion of the model is completely covered, by the hands, you can't call it topless."
Controversy has followed Malik throughout her career as a model and actor. She had an acrimonious love affair with the Pakistani cricketer Mohammad Asif, who was recently sentenced to jail in Britain for fixing a match.
She sent blood pressures racing in Pakistan by starring in an Indian reality TV show in which she appeared to be canoodling with an Indian actor. Undaunted, she appeared on a Pakistani television channel at the start of this year to debate with a mullah who accused her of "insulting Pakistan and Islam", only to tear him apart in a blistering, hour-long verbal assault, telling him there were bigger problems in Pakistan to worry about, including the rape of children in Islamic seminaries.
Even the current storm shows no sign of abating. On Monday an Indian fashion designer, Umair Zafar, claimed that Malik and FHM had planned the whole drama, including the lawsuits, for the sensational publicity.
Malik's only response was: "I don't know this guy [Zafar]: never met him, never heard of him."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/dec/12/veena-malik-pakistan-nude-fhm?newsfeed=true
Prodigal actress escapes multiple court pleas
ISLAMABAD/LAHORE: The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Monday dismissed yet another petition against actress Veena Malik following her controversial photo shoot in an Indian magazine which has triggered a countrywide debate.
Justice Muhammad Anwar Khan Kasi, who previously had struck down an identical petition of advocate Saleemullah Khan, again dismissed the petition of advocate Waqas Malik — on the same ground that the forum for entertaining such petitions was 'inappropriate'.
"She [Veena] has been controversial throughout her career but no one contested her acts, this time she crossed her limits by using the Inter-Services Intelligence's (ISI) name," argued Malik, adding: "Nudity was not my subject, my plea was to address the ongoing campaign against our valuable institution, the ISI, which has come under fire either through the memogate scandal or through Veena Malik's theatrics".
Malik had named as respondents the secretary interior, director general (DG) Federal Investigation Agency (FIA), DG ISI, DG Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) and DG Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) in the petition.
Through the writ petition, he was seeking court orders to register a criminal case against the actress and placing her name on the Exit Control List.
Notice issued to SHO
Meanwhile, Additional District and Sessions Judge Tahir Khan Niazi on Monday issued a notice for December 19 to a station house officer (SHO) in Lahore for his comments on a petition seeking registration of a case against Veena.
The petitioner, Advocate Ishtiaq Choudhary, contended that the actress had tarnished the image of Pakistan at an international level by posing controversially for the Indian magazine. He added that Veena's actions hurt the sentiments of Pakistani people. He prayed the court to direct the SHO to register a case against her.
Meanwhile, Iqbal Town police on Monday submitted a report in Additional District and Sessions Judge Rana Zahid Iqbal's court on another petition filed by advocate Syed Mazhar seeking the registration of a similar case.
Police in its report contended that the petitioner should file the case in India since neither the photo shoot was done under the Iqbal Town Police precincts nor was the FHM magazine printed under Iqbal Town Police's jurisdiction.
December 16 was fixed as the next date of hearing since the judge was on leave.
Published in The Express Tribune, December 13th, 2011.
http://tribune.com.pk/story/305809/prodigal-actress-escapes-multiple-court-pleas/
Where's the fatwa? Veena Malik strips, Pakistan yawns
#FHM #Inter-Services Intelligence #Pakistan #ToTheContrary #Veena Malik
If Pakistan has learnt to live with what Veena Malik does, it has a lot to do with what Veena Malik says. AFP Photo
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by Shivam Vij
The biggest shocker about the Veena Malik's nude — more accurately, 'implied nude' – photographs in FHM India magazine has been the lack of shock in Pakistan.
Media in India and the world over was abuzz with reports of "outrage" in Pakistan after the magazine's cover went viral on Twitter. That was in keeping with Pakistan's image as that of a country taken over by Islamists; a Pakistani woman posing in the buff with ISI tattooed on her arm, that too for an Indian magazine, was obviously too explosive for that country to handle.
But the reaction to the "Pakistani WMD" — as FHM India called her — has been a bit of a dud.
"I am surprised that except for a few news channels and papers, nobody has been bothering about Veena Malik, as though they don't care what she did," says Islamabad-based journalist Shiraz Hassan. "Haven't seen anything from hardliners also."
Her manager claimed this week that she had privately received death threats, something she did in March as well. But there have been no fatwas, no price on her head, no street protests calling it the 'dishonouring' of Pakistan.
Karachi-based Yusra Askari, an NDTV correspondent, says perhaps it's a case of boredom: "Veena Malik's pictures have not been as controversial as one would have imagined or the international media leads you to believe. The reaction to the way she conducted herself on Bigg Boss 4 was surely a greater reason of concern among the masses. Probably less shock value the second time around." Her canoodling with actor Ashmit Patel in Bigg Boss 4had ruffled many feathers in Pakistan.
The reaction to the "Pakistani WMD" — as FHM India called her — has been a bit of a dud. Screen grab from ibnlive.com
This time, Veena diffused the situation somewhat by immediately claiming she did not pose nude at all and that she was suing FHM India for putting out morphed images. She said she was "topless but not nude" as she was wearing a thong, later removed by photo editing, and her breasts were covered with her arms. FHM India's editor Kabeer Sharma has claimed the photographs were not morphed and he has a video of the shoot to prove that.
The only ones truly upset seem to be Malik's family members. Veena Malik's father has said he's disowning her (just as Rakhi Sawant's family disowned her some years ago). Malik has said she will explain to her parents that the pictures are morphed.
Even the notoriously over-active Pakistani judiciary refused to step in, saying that even if a case of obscenity was made, Malik could only be tried in India for what she has done in India. Pakistan's interior affairs minister Rehman Malik, when forced by journalists to respond to the controversy, said he would consider legal action only if it was proved the pictures were not morphed. "The media morphs even my pictures," he said, "putting me sometimes on a bicycle and sometimes on a donkey."
In any case, militants tend to prefer political targets to sexy starlets. "No fashion show has ever been attacked, no actor assassinated. The public mood in Pakistan is not baying for Veena Malik's blood at all and the media has by and large not inflamed passions," says Muniba Kamal, editor of Instep, a fashion and lifestyle supplement of The News daily.
The timing also helped, says Pakistani columnist Ahmed Yusuf. "For the media, much of which is right-wing, kicking Zardari out of power by any means necessary is top priority at the moment, and hence, most talk shows catered to that requirement."
There was a reported attempt by the Pakistani Army's Inter Services Public Relations to whip up passions by sending local journalists an SMS that said Veena Malik's actions were "the height of humiliation for Pakistan, done by a Pakistani on Indian soil". On her part, Malik has defended the ISI tattoo saying it was to debunk the Indian penchant for blaming everything in Pakistan on the ISI.
Far more than outrage, there has been humour. The most popular joke: now that Veena Malik has declared her "assets", she can join Imran Khan's party, which demanded that politicians declare their, well, assets.
Even the ISI tattoo on her arm elicited jokes; one said, her arm says ISI but the picture is RAW. Many Pakistanis were amused by the tattoo, taking it as a swipe at their notoriously unaccountable intelligence agency.
Comparisons were drawn instantly — even by Pakistanis on Twitter — with Aliaa Magda Elmahdy, the 20-year-old Egyptian blogger who had posted a nude picture of herself on Facebook and then on Twitter. She and her boyfriend said this was a statement against conservative sexual mores in Egypt, and in support of free expression.
Veena Malik did not express any such activist intentions, claiming she is merely an "entertainer". But one could argue it does challenge sexual hypocrisy in Pakistan, and in India. Miss Pakistan (World) Sonia Ahmed thinks it to be Pakistan's Protima Bedi moment. Novelist Bina Shah tweeted: "We get outraged by Veena Malik's photograph, but we don't care when women are paraded naked in the street to avenge "honour"? WTF?"
Shah quickly shot down the few voices that said Malik should be stripped of her citizenship. "I know men don't care about women being stripped and marched naked because they never demand that the perpetrators lose their Pak citizenship," tweeted Shah.
Continues on the next page
http://www.firstpost.com/world/wheres-the-fatwa-veena-malik-strips-pakistan-yawns-155625.html
Veena Malik gets death threats in Pakistan nude cover shoot row
Actor in airbrushing row after appearing to wear only a tattoo spelling initials of Pakistani spy agency on Indian FHM cover
The Pakistani actor at the centre of a controversy over a "nude" picture on the cover of an Indian magazine has hit out at the "stone age" attitudes that have seen her plagued by threats and condemnation.
Veena Malik appeared on the cover of the Indian edition of FHM magazine apparently adorned with nothing but a tattoo that reads ISI – the initials of the military's feared spy agency.
She claims the magazine airbrushed out the thong she was wearing. But her appearance has led to accusations that she has betrayed her country; her father has disowned her, and she has received death threats, in a country where Islamist extremists are a genuine danger.
Even the military establishment has got involved. The Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) is blamed in India for sponsoring terrorism.
A text message sent to local journalists from the Pakistani military's public relations machinery complained that the affair was "the height of humiliation for Pakistan, done by a Pakistani on Indian soil".
In an emotional interview with the Guardian from Mumbai, where she is working on three films, Malik said that despite the threats, she was not scared and would return to Pakistan.
"The things I have done in life, I have the guts to stand by. This is my body; this is my life," she said. "This is my body, and I will take advantage of it if I want to. And it's a very beautiful body.
"But I will not allow any man out there to morph my pictures and put it on the cover, just to sell their magazine. They are gaining. I'm losing."
The magazine the Indian version of the British men's monthly FHM maintains that Malik consented to the nude picture, which appears on the front of the December issue.
The actor and the magazine are unable even to agree on her age, with the magazine saying she is 33 while she insists she is still in her 20s. They are suing each other for £3m in a bitter exchange of lawsuits. She revealed that she had even consulted a UK law firm about taking FHM to court in Britain.
Malik has been vilified at home, and argues that no-one is willing to hear her side of the story.
"I'm living my life on my own terms," she says. "If somebody does not agree with that, if somebody does not want to understand, it's pretty OK with me. I did not commit any crime in my life.
"If some mullah on the TV today says shoot the girl, they will shoot me. But the guy who removed my clothes using some technology, at least say something against him.
"This attitude, I'm sorry, is in the society. When they say they have become modern, grown up, that's wrong. They still live in the stone age."
In a country that is becoming more conservative, women are increasingly covering up in Pakistan, some by choice, others through intimidation. Nudity is unknown, even in Pakistan's "porn" films.
Malik said that she was wearing the bottom half of a bikini during the photo shoot and denied that she was even topless, as her hands were hiding her breasts.
"My choice was a bikini shoot. And I did a bikini shoot. They removed my bikini, later on. It was not a topless, and not a nude, shoot. It was a completely covered shoot," said Malik. "When the upper portion of the model is completely covered, by the hands, you can't call it topless."
Controversy has followed Malik throughout her career as a model and actor. She had an acrimonious love affair with the Pakistani cricketer Mohammad Asif, who was recently sentenced to jail in Britain for fixing a match.
She sent blood pressures racing in Pakistan by starring in an Indian reality TV show in which she appeared to be canoodling with an Indian actor. Undaunted, she appeared on a Pakistani television channel at the start of this year to debate with a mullah who accused her of "insulting Pakistan and Islam", only to tear him apart in a blistering, hour-long verbal assault, telling him there were bigger problems in Pakistan to worry about, including the rape of children in Islamic seminaries.
Even the current storm shows no sign of abating. On Monday an Indian fashion designer, Umair Zafar, claimed that Malik and FHM had planned the whole drama, including the lawsuits, for the sensational publicity.
Malik's only response was: "I don't know this guy [Zafar]: never met him, never heard of him."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/dec/12/veena-malik-pakistan-nude-fhm?newsfeed=true
Prodigal actress escapes multiple court pleas
The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Monday dismissed yet another petition against actress Veena Malik following her controversial photo shoot in an Indian magazine which has triggered a countrywide debate.
Justice Muhammad Anwar Khan Kasi, who previously had struck down an identical petition of advocate Saleemullah Khan, again dismissed the petition of advocate Waqas Malik — on the same ground that the forum for entertaining such petitions was 'inappropriate'.
"She [Veena] has been controversial throughout her career but no one contested her acts, this time she crossed her limits by using the Inter-Services Intelligence's (ISI) name," argued Malik, adding: "Nudity was not my subject, my plea was to address the ongoing campaign against our valuable institution, the ISI, which has come under fire either through the memogate scandal or through Veena Malik's theatrics".
Malik had named as respondents the secretary interior, director general (DG) Federal Investigation Agency (FIA), DG ISI, DG Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) and DG Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) in the petition.
Through the writ petition, he was seeking court orders to register a criminal case against the actress and placing her name on the Exit Control List.
Notice issued to SHO
Meanwhile, Additional District and Sessions Judge Tahir Khan Niazi on Monday issued a notice for December 19 to a station house officer (SHO) in Lahore for his comments on a petition seeking registration of a case against Veena.
The petitioner, Advocate Ishtiaq Choudhary, contended that the actress had tarnished the image of Pakistan at an international level by posing controversially for the Indian magazine. He added that Veena's actions hurt the sentiments of Pakistani people. He prayed the court to direct the SHO to register a case against her.
Meanwhile, Iqbal Town police on Monday submitted a report in Additional District and Sessions Judge Rana Zahid Iqbal's court on another petition filed by advocate Syed Mazhar seeking the registration of a similar case.
Police in its report contended that the petitioner should file the case in India since neither the photo shoot was done under the Iqbal Town Police precincts nor was the FHM magazine printed under Iqbal Town Police's jurisdiction.
December 16 was fixed as the next date of hearing since the judge was on leave.
Published in The Express Tribune, December 13th, 2011.
http://tribune.com.pk/story/305809/prodigal-actress-escapes-multiple-court-pleas/
Where's the fatwa? Veena Malik strips, Pakistan yawns
#FHM #Inter-Services Intelligence #Pakistan #ToTheContrary #Veena Malik
If Pakistan has learnt to live with what Veena Malik does, it has a lot to do with what Veena Malik says. AFP Photo
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by Shivam Vij
The biggest shocker about the Veena Malik's nude — more accurately, 'implied nude' – photographs in FHM India magazine has been the lack of shock in Pakistan.
Media in India and the world over was abuzz with reports of "outrage" in Pakistan after the magazine's cover went viral on Twitter. That was in keeping with Pakistan's image as that of a country taken over by Islamists; a Pakistani woman posing in the buff with ISI tattooed on her arm, that too for an Indian magazine, was obviously too explosive for that country to handle.
But the reaction to the "Pakistani WMD" — as FHM India called her — has been a bit of a dud.
"I am surprised that except for a few news channels and papers, nobody has been bothering about Veena Malik, as though they don't care what she did," says Islamabad-based journalist Shiraz Hassan. "Haven't seen anything from hardliners also."
Her manager claimed this week that she had privately received death threats, something she did in March as well. But there have been no fatwas, no price on her head, no street protests calling it the 'dishonouring' of Pakistan.
Karachi-based Yusra Askari, an NDTV correspondent, says perhaps it's a case of boredom: "Veena Malik's pictures have not been as controversial as one would have imagined or the international media leads you to believe. The reaction to the way she conducted herself on Bigg Boss 4 was surely a greater reason of concern among the masses. Probably less shock value the second time around." Her canoodling with actor Ashmit Patel in Bigg Boss 4had ruffled many feathers in Pakistan.
The reaction to the "Pakistani WMD" — as FHM India called her — has been a bit of a dud. Screen grab from ibnlive.com
This time, Veena diffused the situation somewhat by immediately claiming she did not pose nude at all and that she was suing FHM India for putting out morphed images. She said she was "topless but not nude" as she was wearing a thong, later removed by photo editing, and her breasts were covered with her arms. FHM India's editor Kabeer Sharma has claimed the photographs were not morphed and he has a video of the shoot to prove that.
The only ones truly upset seem to be Malik's family members. Veena Malik's father has said he's disowning her (just as Rakhi Sawant's family disowned her some years ago). Malik has said she will explain to her parents that the pictures are morphed.
Even the notoriously over-active Pakistani judiciary refused to step in, saying that even if a case of obscenity was made, Malik could only be tried in India for what she has done in India. Pakistan's interior affairs minister Rehman Malik, when forced by journalists to respond to the controversy, said he would consider legal action only if it was proved the pictures were not morphed. "The media morphs even my pictures," he said, "putting me sometimes on a bicycle and sometimes on a donkey."
In any case, militants tend to prefer political targets to sexy starlets. "No fashion show has ever been attacked, no actor assassinated. The public mood in Pakistan is not baying for Veena Malik's blood at all and the media has by and large not inflamed passions," says Muniba Kamal, editor of Instep, a fashion and lifestyle supplement of The News daily.
The timing also helped, says Pakistani columnist Ahmed Yusuf. "For the media, much of which is right-wing, kicking Zardari out of power by any means necessary is top priority at the moment, and hence, most talk shows catered to that requirement."
There was a reported attempt by the Pakistani Army's Inter Services Public Relations to whip up passions by sending local journalists an SMS that said Veena Malik's actions were "the height of humiliation for Pakistan, done by a Pakistani on Indian soil". On her part, Malik has defended the ISI tattoo saying it was to debunk the Indian penchant for blaming everything in Pakistan on the ISI.
Far more than outrage, there has been humour. The most popular joke: now that Veena Malik has declared her "assets", she can join Imran Khan's party, which demanded that politicians declare their, well, assets.
Even the ISI tattoo on her arm elicited jokes; one said, her arm says ISI but the picture is RAW. Many Pakistanis were amused by the tattoo, taking it as a swipe at their notoriously unaccountable intelligence agency.
Comparisons were drawn instantly — even by Pakistanis on Twitter — with Aliaa Magda Elmahdy, the 20-year-old Egyptian blogger who had posted a nude picture of herself on Facebook and then on Twitter. She and her boyfriend said this was a statement against conservative sexual mores in Egypt, and in support of free expression.
Veena Malik did not express any such activist intentions, claiming she is merely an "entertainer". But one could argue it does challenge sexual hypocrisy in Pakistan, and in India. Miss Pakistan (World) Sonia Ahmed thinks it to be Pakistan's Protima Bedi moment. Novelist Bina Shah tweeted: "We get outraged by Veena Malik's photograph, but we don't care when women are paraded naked in the street to avenge "honour"? WTF?"
Shah quickly shot down the few voices that said Malik should be stripped of her citizenship. "I know men don't care about women being stripped and marched naked because they never demand that the perpetrators lose their Pak citizenship," tweeted Shah.
Continues on the next page
http://www.firstpost.com/world/wheres-the-fatwa-veena-malik-strips-pakistan-yawns-155625.htmlVeena Malik's 30 hours peaceful sleep
Veena Malik's disappearing act had nothing to do with so-called physical threats
Two days of search operation and a whole lot of hullabaloo later, the missing Veena Malik woke up in a plush Juhu hotel room on Sunday morning. And while the industry worried over her whereabouts, the actress herself was busy curling up in front of the television, basking in all the media attention she had garnered over the weekend while she was sleeping.The lead actress of an under-production horror film, Veena, to everybody's horror went missing from the sets located in Film City, Goregaon on Friday evening. The actress was shooting in a bathtub that evening. And she did not take too well to the cold water in which she had to shoot for over 18 hours in the week. Needless to say, she fell ill.
To recover, the actress, reportedly checked into the Juhu hotel that very night. After filing the necessary documents made mandatory by the CID for Pakistani residents, she made a quick call to the doctor. After the high dose of antibiotics, the actress went into snooze mode. And while, the industry panicked, Veena slept off her illness in her cozy bed for almost thirty hours.
Well, she has now been found. And while her fans and Ashmit Patel can now rejoice, we would really like to meet the doctor who put her to such a peaceful sleep. Unfortunately, no one has been able to trace the doctor yet.
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 Veena Malik posing for the cameras at the red carpet event for the Lux Style Awards 2007. | |
| Native name | Veena Malik |
| Born | Zahida Malik Rawalpindi, Pakistan |
| Other names | Veenz,Vinni |
| Ethnicity | Punjabi |
| Occupation | Actress, comedian and model |
| Years active | 1999–present |
| Height | 5 ft 7 in (1.70 m) |
| Weight | 50 kilograms (110 lb) |
| Parents | Mohammad Ali Malik ,Zeenat Malik |
| Website | |
| veenamalik.com.pk | |
Veena Malik (Urdu: وينا ملک, born Zahida Malik) is a Pakistani actress, model andcomedienne. Over a span of ten years, she has worked with news channels and in movies, garnering accolades and acclaim for her performances. Malik has since established herself as a leading actress of Urdu cinema. She is also known for her various social causes, most notably as a representative of the World Health Organization.
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Early life
Veena Malik was born in Rawalpindi in the province of Punjab,[1] to Ali Malik, and his wife, Zeenat Malik.[2] Her father, a former Pakistani army soldier, was opposed to her starting a career as an actress. She holds a BA in Sociology, Psychology and Persian.[1]
Career
Films
Before starting her career off as an actress, Malik worked as a comedian for several television shows and series. She made her acting debut alongside Shaan and Zara Sheikh in Askari's Tere Pyar Mein (2000), which was a box office hit. She played a supporting role in the film and was barely acknowledged. However, she appeared in a supporting role inJaved Sheikh's Yeh Dil Aap Ka Huwa (2002).
In 2003, Malik appeared in Indo-Pak cross venture Punjabi film Pind Di Kuri which failed to do so well, however, the film turned out be the first Indo-Pak venture film with a budget of approximately 70 million rupees. She also appeared in Askari's Sassi Punno(2003) alongside Sana and Moammar Rana, however the film failed to do well at Lahore's cinemas and further screenings had stopped in cinemas after a week of its release. She then appeared in Rafique's Jageer.
In 2005, she appeared in a short Punjabi film Bau Badmash (2005) which did not garner any recognition due to the lack of big stars. She then appeared in Reema Khan's Koi Tujh Sa Kahan (2005) which was a commercial success in Pakistan.In 2007, she won her first Lux Style Award for being the most stylish celebrity on the red carpet.[citation needed]
In 2008, Malik appeared in Rafique's Punjabi film, Mohabbatan Sachiyan, alongside ex-fiancee Babrik Shah and newcomers Maria Khan and Adnan Khan. The film went on to become a commercial success.[3] The same year, she appeared in Raza's Kabhi Pyaar Na Karna in a supporting role, but the film was a flop. Her last film of 2008 was Altaf's Ishq Beparwah, which also failed to impress the audience.
In 2010, she worked in Rafique's Main Jeena Tere Naal, and Beyg's debut comedy film Miss Duniya.[4]
Television
In 2002, she was called by Prime TV to host a show called Prime Gupshup[5] for them ushering a new direction for her comedic skills and she improvised on the hour-long show occasionally mimicking actors.
She hosted the Geo TV show Hum Sub Umeed Say Hain, in which she was hailed for her comedic parodies.[6]
In 2007, she graced the red carpet event of the Lux Style Awards and was awarded as being the 'most stylish celebrity on the carpet'.[7]
In October 2010, Malik appeared in the Indian television reality show Bigg Boss Season 4.[8] She was evicted two weeks before the finals, and was one of the final six contestants out of the original fourteen who had participated.[9] Malik was also part of the finale of the show.[10] After her Bigg Boss stay, she was mentioned in the media as the voice of liberal muslims, including leading dailies, Daily Times,[11] Express Tribune,[12] and The Australian.[13] Sabbah Hajim, from the Haji Amina Charity Trust in Jammu and Kashmir, writing in the magazine Tehelka, when comparing her with liberal rector of Darul Uloom Deoband, Ghulam Mohammad Vastanvi said, "these two newly public figures might teach Muslims to stop feeling eternally outraged."[14]
In February 2011,[15] Veena Malik became part of the Cricket World Cup reality show[16]in Delhi, India, called "Big Toss." Big Toss was a reality game show with contestants and Malik as the captain of one team, against Rakhi Sawant[17] and her team.
In March 2011, Malik engaged in a passionate debate with a mufti, who claimed she had engaged in immoral behaviour as a contestant on Bigg Boss, even though he admitted to not having watched the show. Malik countered pointing out the double standards of Pakistani media against women among other rebuttals.[18]
FHM Images
Controversy resulted in Pakistan over a nude image of Malik on the cover of FHM magazine India edition in which she had "ISI" written on her upper arm – the initials of Pakistan's controversial Inter-Services Intelligence spy agency. [19] Malik says she was topless[20] but did not pose completely nude,[21] and has sued the magazine over the images.[22]
Other works
Malik has worked as a representative at the World Health Organization for two years. She also sponsors a child at the SOS Children's Village, an NGO based in Pakistan working with orphaned children.[23]
Personal life
Veena Malik has five sisters and one brother. One of her elder sisters is a lecturer in Abdur Qadeer College, Rawalpindi.[24]
Filmography
| Year | Film | Language |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | Tere Pyar Mein | Urdu |
| 2002 | Yeh Dil Aap Ka Huwa | Urdu |
| Sassi Punno | Urdu | |
| 2003 | Pind Di chudail | Punjabi |
| 2005 | Koi Tujh Sa Kahan | Urdu |
| Kyun Tum Se Itna Pyar Hai | Urdu | |
| 2008 | Mohabbatan Sachiyan | Punjabi |
| Kabhi Pyar Na Karna | Urdu | |
| Ishq Beparwaah | Punjabi | |
| 2012 | Gali Gali Mein Chor Hai | Hindi; Item song "Channo" (Releasing on February 03, 2012) |
| Tere Naal Love Ho Gaya | Hindi; Item song (Releasing on February 17, 2012) | |
| Dal Mein Kuch Kala Hai | Hindi; Filming (Bollywood Debut Film) | |
| Mumbai 125 KM | Hindi; Filming | |
| All U Need... LOVE | Hindi; Filming | |
| Zingadi 50-50 | Hindi; Pre-production | |
| Mr. Money | Hindi; Item song |
Television work
| Year | Program | Role | Other Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | Hum Sub Umeed Se Hain | Herself | Presenter for a political humor show |
| 2009 | Miss Duniya | Herself | Pakistani reality show |
| 2010 | Bigg Boss 4 | Herself | Indian reality show |
| 2011 | Superstud | Herself | Indian reality show |
| 2011 | Bigg Toss Reality Game Show[25] | Herself | Indian reality show |
| 2011 | Veena Ka Vivaah | Herself | Indian reality show |
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- ^ "VIEW: Why is Veena Malik important?". Daily Times. February 4, 2011.
- ^ "In defence of Veena Malik". Express Tribune. January 30, 2011.
- ^ "Actress Veena Malik takes on clerics over dress". The Australian. January 31, 2011.
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- ^ "Row over Pakistan actress Veena Malik nude 'ISI' photo".bbc.co.uk/news. 2 December 2011.
- ^ "Veena Malik says she was topless but 'not nude' in FHM".BBC News. 8 December 2011.
- ^ "Veena Malik defends ISI tattoo for FHM photo shoot". Express Tribune. 3 December 2011.
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