Ranveer Singh drops his clothes to stir up yet another storm

It’s not everyday that you see a Bollywood A-lister pulling off a daring act like this for an international magazine, but Ranveer did it and how! In Ranveer’s own words he ‘busts his ba**s’ and works ‘20-hour days’. Well the result was out for everyone to see and it’s not often that you get your name mentioned in the same sentence as American pop culture icon and sex symbol Burt Reynolds.

It was a bold move and one can only expect Ranveer to pull it off with such an ease and then go on to say that he can be naked in front of a thousand people and not care about it.The pictures were (obviously) met with mixed reactions, with fans stanning their favourite star and others lambasting the actor for crossing a line. But normally nudity as an art have ever been unequivocally accepted. When Milind dared to run naked on a beach in Goa in 2020, he had a case registered against him. Poonam Pandey, Esha Gupta, Sherlyn Chopra, Kalki Koechlin have all been at the receiving end of flak when they chose to bare it all for the cameras.

While Ranveer’s photoshoot is still a hot topic of discussion among Bollywood enthusiasts, the actor found support in the likes of Alia Bhatt, Arjun Kapoor, Swara Bhasker, and of course wife Deepika Padukone, who says she was in on the entire process of the shoot and happy to see hubby naked on a Turkish rug. But,an FIR has been filed against Ranveer Singh for posting the nude pictures from the photoshoot on Instagram.

While nudity as a form of visual art has been accepted in Western culture, India seems to still have a long way to go. But it is surprising when you consider that way before the West started painting or shooting nudes, Indians had been sculpting them on rocks and temples as an art form!