Fake MMS clips flood India, as Bollywood actors such as Kareena Kapoor, Kollywood heroines such as Trisha Krishnan and sportstars such as Sania Mirza become the latest victims. Those are the fakes. But there are more celebrity, voyeur and nondescript MMS clips travelling the wireless spectrum.
The MMS sleaze is here to stay. Bollywood actress Kareena Kapoor seems to be the favourite star in the shady alleys of MMS sleaze, with a video clip of her undressing in an unidentified location swarming the mobile phones in the country with stunning speed.
The sequences of the MMS clip is mundane: Kareena (or her lookalike) enters the room, closes the door and undresses. The twist is that the once bitten Bollywood beauty suddenly realises some thing fishy and turns her back. In the portals of knowledgable experts in such matters, the theory is that while the womain the MMS is Kareena Kapoor herself, what you see when the Bollywood actress undresses has just been shoddily photoshopped on to the actual video.
Curtains down on the show, but the issue simmers across Bollywood, where sleaze, underworld links and outlandish behaviour are as common as the sets of third rate flicks.
Of course, the sleazy MMS clips do not target Bollywood stars alone - there is a so-called Sania Mirza MMS clip in circulation, which so apparently is fake, featuring some two-bit foreign actress.
Bollywood capitalising on the MMS mania
And remember, Bollywood itself may be the inspiration for many such clips. A film was promoted recenmtly by circulating a steamy MMS clip of Koena Mitra and Fardeen Khan. All this suggests that clips, no matter their authenticity, will continue to emerge from time to time.
…and MMS clips past
The Kareena MMS clip is the second one involving the actress, the first one being her smooch clip with boyfriend Shahid Kapoor in a posh Mumbai club. This, after being hotly denounced by the couple, was forgotten pretty quickly. A MMS clip purportedly showing actors Ashmit Patel and Roya Sen was hotly debated, but was quietly ignored by both the concerned parties, giving rise to massive speculation on the internet without any conclusive decision one way or the other. Down south, actress Tamil star Trisha was supposedly filmed in the bathroom of a luxury hotel and the MMS clip made way to mobiles as well as the internet. This was one of the first celebrity MMS clips that appeared in India, and is generally believed to be of someone else barely similar to Trisha.