In 2002, Veena hosted the Prime TV series, Prime Gupshup[11] for them ushering a new direction for her comic skills and she improvised on the hour-long show occasionally mimicking actors.
Veena hosted the Geo TV show Hum Sub Umeed Se Hain, in which she was hailed for her comedic parodies.[12][13]
In 2007, she appeared at the Lux Style Awards and was awarded as being the Most stylish celebrity on the carpet.[13]
In October 2010, Veena appeared in the Indian television reality show Bigg BossSeason 4.[14]
She was evicted two weeks before the finals, and was one of the final six contestants out of the original fourteen who had participated.[15] Veena was also part of the finale of the show.[16] After her Bigg Boss stay, she was mentioned in the media as the voice of liberal Muslims, including leading dailies, Daily Times,[17]Express Tribune,[18] and The Australian.[19] Sabbah Hajim, from the Haji Amina Charity Trust in Jammu and Kashmir, writing in the magazine Tehelka, when comparing her with liberal rector of Darul Uloom Deoband said, "these two newly public figures might teach Muslims to stop feeling eternally outraged."[20]
In February 2011,[21] Veena became part of the Cricket World Cup reality show[22] in Delhi, India, called "Big Toss." Big Toss was a reality game show with contestants and Veena as the captain of one team, against Rakhi Sawant[23] and her team.
In March 2011, Veena engaged in a passionate debate with a mufti, who claimed she had engaged in immoral behaviour as a contestant on Bigg Boss, even though he admitted to not having watched the show. Veena countered pointing out the double standards of Pakistani media against women among other rebuttals.[24]
Another show Veena Malik – Veena Ka Vivah was planned where Veena would search for her soul-mate, but the show was cancelled when Imagine TV, the channel on which the show was being shown, announced that it was shutting down.[25] Veena collected almost 71,000 entries from all over the world for the show.[26]
In 2003, Veena appeared in Indo-Pak cross venture Punjabi film Pind Di Kudi which failed commercially. She also appeared in Askari's Sassi Punno (2003) alongside Sana and Moammar Rana. She then appeared in Rafique's Jageer. Her breakthrough role was in Reema Khan's Koi Tujh Sa Kahan. In the same year, she played the parallel lead role of Farwa in fantasy film Naag aur Nagin.
In 2007, Veena appeared in Rafique's Punjabi film, Mohabbatan Sachiyan, alongside Babrik Shah and newcomers Maria Khan and Adnan Khan. The film went on to become a commercial success.[28] The same year, she appeared in Raza's Kabhi Pyar Na Karna in a supporting role.
In 2012, Veena debuted in Bollywood with an item song in Gali Gali Mein Chor Hai entitled "Chhanno". Then in the same month she did another item song "Fann Ban Gayi" in Tere Naal Love Ho Gaya. Then she made her acting debut with a comedy Daal Mein Kuch Kaala Hai. In 2013, her first film was Rajiv S. Ruia's social drama Zindagi 50 50 in which she played a prostitute. She appeared in the music video "Ac Chala Garmi Badi Hai" sung by Sukhdeep Grewal. Then she made a special appearance in Punjabi film, Jatts in Golmaal in an item song "Shabboo". She then made her Kannada film debut and appeared in Dirty Picture: Silk Sakkath Hot in which she portrayed the life of actress Silk Smitha for which she gained 5 kg.[29] Her last film of 2013 was Super Model. Veena played a supermodel, a small town girl who becomes a success in the fashion industry. Her last Bollywood film was Hemant Madhukar's Mumbai 125 KM 3D that was released in 2014.
Personal life
Malik married businessman Asad Bashir Khan Khattak on 25 December 2013 in Dubai.[4] They have two children together. They divorced in 2018.[citation needed]
Malik is a Muslim and claims to have visited Kaaba thrice.[30]
Controversy resulted in Pakistan over a nude image of Veena on the cover of FHM magazine India edition in which she had "ISI" written on her upper arm – the initials of Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence spy agency.[36] Veena says she was topless[37] but did not pose completely nude,[38] and has sued the magazine over the images.[39]
Legal troubles
In November 2014, Veena and her husband Asad were sentenced to 26 years in prison by a Gilgit court for allegedly airing a blasphemous programme.[40] The owner of Pakistan's biggest media group, Geo TV and Jang group, was accused of allowing the airing of the blasphemous programme by Geo television in May, which played a religious song while staging a mock marriage of Veena with Bashir. A fine of Rs. 1.3 million (US$4,502) was also set. The judge sentenced Veena and Bashir and TV host Shaista Wahidi to 26 years each.[41][42] She planned to appeal.[43] They have yet to serve any time, as the ruling is not enforceable outside Gilgit.[44]
^Chawla, Sonal (11 September 2010). "Veena Malik in Bigg Boss 4". The Times of India. Archived from the original on 13 September 2010. Retrieved 2 October 2010.
Stardom in Contemporary Hindi Cinema: Celebrity and Fame in Globalized Times. Germany, Ed. Aysha Iqbal Viswamohan, Clare M. Wilkinson, Springer Singapore, 2020.
Televisual Pakistan First Published 16 June 2020 Volume: 10 issue: 2, page(s): 105-110 ; Issue published: 1 December 2019 Ravi Vasudevan, Rosie Thomas, S. V. Srinivas, Kartik Nair, Debashree Mukherjee, Lotte Hoek, Salma Siddique
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