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Poonam's bare not for all, only Team India
Model, flooded with offers from international magazines, says she will strip only for the Indian team.
Poonam Panday said she wanted to excite Indian players to play better.
NEW DEHLI: She may or may not get to strip for the Men in Blue, but young model Poonam Pandey has sure got a lot of media attention as well as lucrative offers from international magazines that want her to pose naked.
The aspiring actress, who has grabbed headlines for stating that she will bare all if Team India wins the World Cup, has been flooded with offers from foreign glossies. But she has rejected them saying she will strip only for the Indian team.
“So far she is flooded with many offers from India and world wide. Right from Indian reality shows to international magazines. More than that, she got a huge half million dollar offer from an international magazine to pose nude for their cover, but she rejected it as the act to go nude was only meant for team India to get home the World Cup and not to make fame and money. She is on cloud nine as India won the cup,” said Poonam’s manager Vipin M.
The 19-year-old was one of the top eight contestants of Gladrags’ model hunt contest last year.
According to Vipin, the model has been getting threatening calls from moral police and she is avoiding taking calls or talking to anybody in person unless she gets an approval from BCCI.
Poonam made her controversial offer on Twitter just before the semifinal in Mohali.
But later she made a statement saying she would only do so if BCCI permits. On Friday she sent an official letter to the board, saying going naked for the team would have a “therapeutic” effect on Team India and help them win.
In the letter, she wrote: “..I want India to win the Cricket World Cup 2011 and am willing to go the extra mile to do anything so that India wins the World Cup. I am ready and willing at any place and time of the Indian teams choosing to go in the nude to boost their sporting spirit to perform better.”
She also cited “many studies conducted by various universities abroad which confirms and infers that such performances/expectations boost and inspire people to perform better in any field, be it sports or otherwise. Even medical books on psychology and psychiatry confirms this.”
The model made a “humble request” to be allowed to “perform in the privacy of the Indian cricket team’s dressing room or any other place of your choosing”. She suggested “a foreign land like Paris in France, so that the Laws of India – if a hindrance, shall not apply”.
It would act like a “private therapeutic performance with a psychologist’s presence” and “cannot be an offence under any law for the time being in force if the team members have no objection and the BCCI gives the go ahead.”
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Enjoy Indian boys, she is coming… :-)…
BTW very cheap publicity stunt Ms. PandeyRecommend
Darn it. that means the Pakistanis and Sri Lankans threw their games for nothing.Recommend
How noble!!!Recommend
Veena are you listening?Recommend
BTW cheap standard of EXPRESS TRIBUNE , by giving coverage to such NEWSRecommend
people of India really supporting their teamRecommend
Chak Daay Indiaa!!!Recommend
Good shot ponam………Indian Team enjoy to see ponam naked.Recommend
Am i allowed ?Recommend
whatever, she is everywhere now!!Recommend
great ponam…..
rock the indian team…..
iss qabil na chorna k next koi b match khyl saken:DRecommend
team afridi would have performed better if they had been promised such a treat;))Recommend
@Ahmad:
news is supposed to be news.Its to be unbiased and all-telling. Would you say the same thing about Wikileaks?Recommend
What kind of reporting is this…Recommend
She’s not even pretty….oh but that doesnt even matter cause no one will be looking at her face:DRecommend
i am willing to pose naked if Pakistan defeats the West Indies in the upcoming tour.Recommend
Most deffinetly NOT a representitive of Indian women. I am not indian, but this woman is a disgrace all around! cheap publicity stunt, as well as desprate measures for attention! God help her poor soul!Recommend
I wish she would have mentioned this earlier, I guess I just wasted $400 on my new prescription glasses. What a shame!!!!Recommend
@fayyaz mangi:
Why? What have you against Pakistani Cricketers? Look what happened to Asif……….:-PRecommend
As a woman, I hang my head in dismay.Recommend
@Henna Khan:
nothing against her on the contrary she will get 12 asif’s on my advise.Recommend
hahahahahahah have not heard anything more retarded than THAT.Recommend
i dont care if she is doing this for fame or whateve but she isnt ugly, she looks attractive and if tall even better ~Recommend
She’s implying that to win a match you need a bunch of hookers??Recommend
If Pakistan had won who would wanted to do that for our team?Recommend
i would change my underwear if pakistan wins the next seriesRecommend
Speechless!! How desperate!Recommend
Had Veena made the same offer, Green shirts would have won! Alas!!!!!!!!Recommend
2 Pathan Yousaf and Zaheer say bach ke rehnaRecommend
Veena Malik could have done this for our team.Recommend
Veena Malik? Why not Nargis or Deedar for our version??Recommend
If Veena had done this, I am sure no one would have been able to play any more. She is so horrible.Recommend
Why is this news relevant to Pakistanis? Who cares about how many Indian models are or aren’t posing in the nude. Do we need to discuss how many sculptures in India show naked forms? Nudity is common in many ways there and we have to accept different cultures of our neighbours.Recommend
@Sarah K.: Why should you hang your head in shame as a woman?
Unless, of course, you alongwith the Oprah Winfrey and Gloria Steinem inspired sisterhood,
bought bait, hook and sinker, the ideology of occidental / consumerist feminism,
which sought to ‘empower’ women … only to become slaves of the same
corporate grist mill. How free are you now? How empowered?
Or do men like me, who actually do ‘respect’ women, just
male chauvinist pigs masquerading as cassandra?
Welcome, to your ‘brave new world’.Recommend
@Andrea: But isn’t this an ‘empowered; modern woman?
Should we really censure her for exercising her ‘right’ to expose her body.
It is her body, after all, is it not?
I mean, men go about bare chested in appropriate social / public forums viz.
body sports (boxing / swimming), beaches etc.
So why shouldn’t women have the same ‘equal’ rights?
As a post-modern reformed male, I absolutely agree,
that we men have been responsible for all the real and imagined crimes against women.
That there is not a single redeeming quality about my gender.
That all of humanity’s goodness is solely the provenance of females,
and shame on us males for requiring the women in our lives, to accept certain social norms.
How presumptuous of us males; we who are second class evolutionary spawns.
Well, at least, we can be proud, that we can ‘admire’ your unrestrained ascent.
Poonam Pandeys and the Veena Maliks are living proofs
of the victorious evolutionary trajectory of your gender.
How wonderful! This is clearly a victory for both genders! March on! Shed the clothes!
We men, should be grateful, that you are allowing us to even witness and participate.
We are truly humbled.
(Let not my praise confuse anyone. A good deal of sarcasm and reckoning is in order.)Recommend
@Saira: And what gives you the right to represent her volition to the public?
Would you have done it for the Pakistani team?
You cannot be the beneficiary of the same bankrupt totalitarian victim mindset of feminism,
while reserving the sanctimonious stance critical of the corruption, such as diminished sense of modesty in women, arising out of the same set of premises.
It is like playing both the sides and sitting on the fence.
Quite a balancing act that. And very hypocritical.Recommend
@fayyaz mangi:
Exactly. Look where he did end………….Recommend
@Agonised Uncle: Sure she is an empowered and modern Indian woman- all the power to you. I respect her decision but it clashes with the values of Pakistani culture. I don’t think you understand the difference between Pakistan values and Indian values. Indians are much more liberal about nudity is all that Andrea seems to be saying. For example I know that statues in India show nude figures. I know of many Pakistanis who cringe when they see women’s exposed mid riffs in Indian type saris. This is not allowed in Pakistan or would not be tolerated. This is a cultural difference between the two nations.Recommend
@Grace:
I guess you did not discern the fullness of my sarcasm.
But I wouldn’t delude myself as a Pakistani.
Because, in Pakistan, we know the attitudes of the youth.
A lot happens behind doors, our elders’ protestations notwithstanding.
The point, I was obliquely trying to make in my earlier ripostes to
Sarah.K, Andrea and Saira is that it is this mottled ideology of
Western type militaristic feminazis which is responsible for the
regression in our social values.
But of course, not all feminists are the same.
I was hoping that there will be some who will read my posts hereinabove,
and understand that ‘it is my body’ attitude is neither here, nor there …
it is everywhere.Recommend