It seems like a classic case of beauty being “framed”. The damsel in distress is Smriti Mishra who has been chosen by The New York Times as one of the ten most beautiful faces on the Indian screen, and the “framer”, a photographer called Pat.
The actress called up The Asian Age office in Mumbai to complain that the fashion photographer has been harassing her for the last few days. Smriti reportedly didn’t want certain pictures of herself shot by the photographer to be published. She claimed that the photographer who had clicked her pictures for Elle magazine has however been threatening to print them. “Pat desperately wants to make easy money and he’s using me.”
The controversial photographs, which Smriti was uncomfortable with, were shot by Pat last year. “ They were taken of me in a bath tub, but there was no indecent exposure. Its no big deal, but I just felt that they should not be published anywhere,” said the actress who proved her acting prowess in movies like Jaya Ganga, Sardari Begum and Is Raat Ki Subah Nahin.
Lensman Pat has a pretty different tale to tell. Dismissing the whole episode as a joke the photographer rang up The Asian Age office to controvert Smriti’s “sob story.”
“That bath tub photograph has already been published in Elle last year. It had to be cropped and she herself has a personal copy. The magazine has kept the negatives so there’s no way I can blackmail her,” said Pat sweeping-off the allegations as “outrageous”.
Pat stated that he was totally in the dark as to why Smriti was making such hue and cry over the whole affair and further added that he never has harassed her.
Whose version is negative or whose is positive is now in the dark room. One can only hope that the right exposure is framed.
It seems like a classic case of beauty being “framed”. The damsel in distress is Smriti Mishra who has been chosen by The New York Times as one of the ten most beautiful faces on the Indian screen, and the “framer”, a photographer called Pat. 