Since last week, since the news of her no-panty stunt broke, Yana Gupta is probably more searched on the internet than Katrina Kaif, Kareena Kapoor and Deepika Padukone put together. According to Google Trends, Yana is more searched than other top five Bollywood actresses on the internet put together. She has got millions of search queries in the last one week, a ten-million jump in search queries over the last one year. Given the wide reach of the Indian entertainment media, Yana Gupta’s search queries come from all over the world, not just India.
And thanks to the insatiable hunger of men and women all over the world lusting for the no-panty, wardrobe malfunction photos on the internet, several digitally altered, morphed and manipulated fake photos have found their way on several websites, blogs and bulletin boards. Says editor of futuristicmedianetwork.wordpress.com and scandal and gossip guru, “We had genuine uncensored and unedited no panty photos, but we took an editorial decision not to put them up on our blog. We have only put up those photos which were already online on various other websites. We were approached by a UK-based adult men’s magazine to part with the uncensored photos for a hefty price but we turned down the offer and told them we do not have the photos. We do not believe in making money in an unethical and immoral way. Though Yana Gupta did show her crotch at a media event, in full glare of several TV and still cameras, we have refused to put up the uncensored photos.”
Futuristic Media Network got several offers from various other men’s magazines in India to part with or sell the uncensored photos and video clip, but refused to do so. Now that the matter is in court, with a Lucknow magistrate taking cognizance of a complaint, we are glad we didn’t put up the unedited photographs, says Flynn Remedios, adding that several photographers are trying to make a fast buck peddling fake, manipulated, digitally altered and morphed photos of Yana Gupta’s crotch. “In terms of content value, the pics are hot today. A cell phone company representative also approached us for the photos, but we turned them down,” says Flynn Remedios.