‘Ranveer Singh told me privately that he was duped into doing nude photoshoot, but backtracked in public’: Mukesh Khanna

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Khanna wondered why Ranveer didn’t take legal action if he was duped. “I would’ve. He told me that he was contractually bound to not have any say about the photos. I wasn’t convinced, because only months ago, he said that he was comfortable with it. And then he claimed to have been betrayed. Even his wife supported him,” he said.

 

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A Mumbai-based NGO filed a police complaint against the actor shortly after the photos were published online. In an accompanying interview, he told Paper magazine, “It’s so easy for me to be physically naked, but in some of my performances I’ve been d**n f**king naked. You can see my f**king soul. How naked is that? That’s being actually naked. I can be naked in front of a thousand people, I don’t give a sh*t. It’s just that they get uncomfortable.”

Photographer Ashish Shah, who captured the photos, told ETimes that Ranveer was very comfortable. “Ranveer was not shy or conscious. He performed very well. There was big and healthy mutual respect for each other,” he said. Kshitij Kankaria, the shoot’s creative director, told Brut that the photos were never sent over email for fear of leaks. “So, we would never send emails and send these images on the internet. It was always with the pen drive, very secretly taken to a printing lab, developing lab and then you have to delete everything from there and take it back. Something like this can really go wrong so we were really, really careful,” he said.