Celina speaks out in support of Yay against a Columnist with a swing vote

Smarting at the comments of columnist Shobhaa De in her recent column as well as in a magazine interview Celina Jaitly, addresses De. In her own words:

"As a military attache's grand daughter and the daughter of an army colonel, I have been brought up to not react to the insults made by my elders. I've had the sort of upbringing which makes me reserve my comments against jibes made by someone my grandmother's age.

Having been a Ms india, a Ms Universe runner up, a social activist, a writer, tourism ambassador to Eygpt and an actor who speaks five languages and has travelled the whole of India and the world, I pride myself on my acheivements in the last twenty-six years of my life how ever big or small they might be because they were acheived not out of fluttering around as a social butterfly or writing sexually provacative stories.

I am the living example of a modern day middle class girl who has done well for herself and stood up for what is right to the entire world and not some diplomatic typical world peace-related issues.

I feel, after reading Shobha aunty's last colum that she is taking a neutral stand (against the decision to make homosexuality legal in the county) to keep both sides happy, until the supreme court decision comes through.... and then she will swing to whichever side of the grass is greener.

Sad, I expected much more from her. I guess Ms De lives to put down the film industry no matter what our contribution is. She should know we actors are people of the massses and classes, we see no race and no religion. All we see is how human we can be. No matter what their sexual orientation."

Celina Jaitly Celebrates the Legalizing Of Homosexuality In Mumbai

Actress and Gay activist, Celina Jaitly held a press conference yesterday to express her joy over the court’s decision of legalizing Gay rights in India - a cause she has publically supported. Celina Jaitly rejoices as the Gay Law announcement was made.

Celina Jaitley excited about doing Comic parts

After the success of Golmaal Celina Jaitley is back again with another comedy flick Paying Guest. The film is a situational comedy that stars Shreyas Talpade opposite her. Celina will be sharing screen space opposite her alongwith Neha Dhupia, Sayali Bhagat in the film. When asked about the camaderie with the other two girls Celina says “I do not know why people think that actresses are incapable of getting along with each other. We all came to work, so why would we fight? We enjoyed ourselves. Dressing up in school uniforms and dancing in the streets of Bangkok - it was fun!” she says.

About her role she says “I am playing a young, sporty and naughty girl, and I star opposite Shreyas. The film is about four friends who are staying as paying guests and what they have to do in order to bag the place. My character is a second-generation Punjabi girl born and brought up in Thailand. She is in love with her pets.”

The actress who has been doing a lot of comedy films lately says “I have done many comedies, and I think that my comic timing has now improved. Paying Guest is different as it is based on a real subject. We have all stayed as a PG at some point in our lives, so it was fun.”

Celina says that Paying Guest reminded her of the days when she lived as a paying guest in Kolkatta. “It was not a funny incident. The first time I went to Kolkatta, I put down a deposit with someone, but he told me to look elsewhere. I was alone with my suitcase and mobile phone in a taxi with no place to go! On the other hand, if you get a good PG, it’s great, because you don’t end up missing home and your parents so much” she concludes.

Celina not the first victim of Morphing

Bollywood actress Celina Jaitley had recently filed a police complaint against two websites for uploading obscene morphed images of her for promotion of products.

One of the erring websites is the popular gadgets blog, Gizmodo.com, and the other, a Bollywood site.

This is just the latest in numerous incidents where Indian actresses have been the target of digital image manipulation.

Last year, southern actress Nayanthara alleged that her rivals were circulating a fake MMS clip showing her in a compromising position with actor Silambarasan Rajendar (Simbu).

Many other southern actresses have been victims of such manipulated videos. The victim list includes Trisha Krishnan, Jyothika and Namitha

Amongst Bollywood actresses an explicit clip supposedly featuring Mallika Sherawat and another of Preity Zinta, were actually of the actresses' lookalikes.

In 2006, the Indian edition of Maxim got embroiled in controversy when Khushboo filed a defamation suit against it for carrying a morphed image of the southern actress in a red transparent bikini along with a derogatory caption.

Even during the early days of the internet in India, manipulated images were a big hit online. Some pronographic websites solely survived on morphed images of popular Bollywood actresses.

An image of Pooja Bhatt, created quite a wave in 1997 when Stardust magazine carried it along with the headline "Scoop of the Month: Actresses caught NUDE in the net."

Celina Jaitly’s Controversial Press conference

Celina Jaitly has recently held the Controversial Press conference. She was surprised when she heard that her pictures from a photoshoot have been used by a website to sell gadgets.