Mumbai: Controversial model Poonam Pandey is appalled, amused and annoyed by talk that her provocative pictures on the internet and in magazines are responsible for the increase in crimes against women.
Poonam, who recently made her Bollywood debut with a bold film Nasha, says she was ‘constantly badgered and persuaded to feel guilty about the crime’ a day after the gang-rape of a photojournalist here last week. ‘Apparently my pictures are responsible for crime against women. Ha ha, really? The same reasoning was used against me during the Nirbhaya case in Delhi. I want to ask all those people who find me provocative enough to induce crime, was there no crime against women before I arrived on the scene,’ Poonam asked. She feels people need a scapegoat for their own failings.
‘Why blame me for social evils? I am just a girl trying to find my place in the world.’
Poonam, who recently made her Bollywood debut with a bold film Nasha, says she was ‘constantly badgered and persuaded to feel guilty about the crime’ a day after the gang-rape of a photojournalist here last week. ‘Apparently my pictures are responsible for crime against women. Ha ha, really? The same reasoning was used against me during the Nirbhaya case in Delhi. I want to ask all those people who find me provocative enough to induce crime, was there no crime against women before I arrived on the scene,’ Poonam asked. She feels people need a scapegoat for their own failings.
‘Why blame me for social evils? I am just a girl trying to find my place in the world.’