By Hindustan Times
Producer Ekta Kapoor’s legal notice to Veena Malik-starrer Kannada remake of her hit flick, The Dirty Picture has not deterred actor Rakhi Sawant, who's starring in a Bengali remake of the National Award-winning movie.
“No. That’s unimaginable. Tell me it isn’t true,” the 33-year-old said after we informed her about Kapoor’s legal notice, before adding, “But I’m not doing a filthy Picture part two or something. I’m doing it in Bengali.” Sawant was within the HT House on Thursday to advertise her latest flick, Rakhtbeej.
The self-confessed “original item girl of Bollywood” further said, “She (Ekta) sent a notice to Veena Malik and never to me because I'M Rakhi Sawant. She knows if she does that I’ll enter her house in protest. My director Shatabdi Roy is herself a member of Parliament. Who can send a notice to her?”
She further slammed the portrayal of Silk Smitha within the original film and said, “The way Silk Smitha was shown within the film is totally hideous. Item girls don’t go into people’s rooms and say ‘entertainment, entertainment, entertainment’. I’m the unique item girl. I don’t smoke or booze. We get work as a result of our talent and never on account of all that have been shown in that film.”
Sawant added that the federal government has “double standards” because “they first gave it a countrywide Award for showing all that (derogatory and suggestive content) after which didn't allow it to be screened on TV. Then why give it an award.”
Rakhi speaks ...
Ekta has sent a notice to Veena Malik and never to me because I'M Rakhi Sawant.
It’s a replica of my show. My show had the similar form of stories... real and raw stories
The day Salman Khan marries, I’ll also marry
...I wish to do Swayamvar 2, then I’ll marry
