The actress has been married to Raj Kaushal from last 12 years and this will be their first child for which Mandira is too excited.

Soon the magazine will hit the stand to which she has give an exclusive interview with a photo-shoot.

The Tabloid as per her has cooked up the story when she didn’t give any quote to its reporter ‘Aakriti Sahwney’ over her latest topless photo-shoot for Vogue.

The actress twitted: “I was repeatedly badgered by a journo frm HT calld Aakriti Sahwney to comment on my recent vogue shoot & when I did not, she printed lies.”

“Have journalistic stds fallen so low, that anythng will b printed, without an iota of responibility? Bcoz a big lie makes a catchy headline?” she added.

All this came after HT has published a story where Mandira was quoted as saying that she will not mind posing topless with her baby bumps, if such an offer comes her way, she will think about it.

However, more than HT, she was furious over the reporter, “I am shockd that a reputed publication like the Hindustan Times, would hire people like Aakriti Sawhney.. Someone with no ethics. Appalling.”

We can only say that ‘Shanti’ Shanti’ Shanti’!

Mandira Bedi, who was once a shy-next-door-girl (Shanti) later turned herself into a cricket expert and now become one of the most ogled and google-d celebrity in Bollywood for her topless photo-shoot for Vogue India. Although, she tried to defend herself on twitter, “Its 1 picture 1 of many & not a cover.. on the inside pages. Honestly, it sounds dodgier than it is. I can’t seem to understand the hullaballoo either. Its deeply troubling,” as she tweeted.

But, it seems Bipasha Basu has made up her mind that she will not let anyone – even if it’s Mandira – to take the advantage of her sexy-dusky-siren image from her, and she wasted no time to go topless for Men’s glossy Magazine Maxim India.

The big question is what has suddenly changed bollywood celebrities to go bolder? The answer we might get soon, when we could see some more Bollywood babes not only going topless but lessen the bottom and heighten people’s libido and send it souring.

Here is a list of some faded out celebrities who went topless in 2010; except Priyanka Chopra none of the them shine or outshined the leading ladies of Bollywood.

The actors posed topless in 2010

• Priyanka Chopra for a shampoo advertisement
• Ameesha Patel for ‘The Men’ magazine cover
• Mallika Sherawat for Hisss
• Neha Dhupia for the Go Green Calendar
• Sherlyn Chopra posted unclothes pictures on Twitter

Sometimes back Neha Dhupia sensationalized the atmosphere with her statement that in Bollywood only SRK or Sex sells and Mandira’s latest topless photo shoot throws an affirmative signal to the statement.

The anchor, actor Mandira is a little off from the Cricket field and also from the limelight and headlines of the entertainment gossips. However, this will in turn bring some food for gossips to gossip mongers. Mandira is quite candid in her interview to Vogue where she said that her biggest insecurity is her ‘Big Thighs’ and she envy ‘Shilpa Shetty’ and ‘Angelina Jolie’ for their voluptuous body.

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Cricket is like a religion running parallel to every Indian’s faith. In this cricket crazy nation a film which talks about the sport is expected to attract huge audiences to the theaters. But I must say in cinema cricket based films have flopped big time, be it Kumar Gaurav’s ‘All rounder’ Aamir Khan’s ‘Awwal Number’, or Kunal Kapoor’s ‘Hattrick’; surely ‘Iqbal’ and ‘Lagaan’ can be considered as exceptions because of high performances and an engaging drama.

‘Meera Bai Not Out’ revolves around a cricket enthusiast Meera [Mandira Bedi] who teaches Mathematics to school students and is a die-hard fan of Anil Kumble. She is thirty and single who befriends only with society boys to play gully cricket. Her mother [Vandana Gupte] and brother [Mahesh Manjrekar] are hell bent to find a groom for their cricketing maniac Meera.

Then enters Dr. Arjun Awasthi [Eijaz Khan] who treats Meera’s injured boys team for free, soon she realizes that there is more in life than dreaming about Anil Kumble or Team India and falls in love with Arjun…

Many people will have an impression about ‘Meera Bai Not Out’ of being a ‘cricket film’ but it is not. Though it has a cricketing enthusiast as its protagonist and even title suggests the same, it is misleading. A good part of the film is devoted to the love story which lacks the red cherry.

The film gets engaging towards the pre-climax when Meera turns away on her ‘match-making’ day to stadium leaving everyone stunned.

Is Anil Kumble thinking about making Bollywood his next home after retiring from international cricket? I am not sure. But I can say he will give it a second thought after audiences’ reaction to this film.

On the acting front Mandira acts her part well. Eijaz looks good and could go further if given opportunity; Mahesh Manjrekar doesn’t really have scope to show his acting skills except towards the end. Anupam Kher tries to copy his own act of ‘DDLJ’ but an actor of his efficiency looks a waste here, well here Anil Kumble do need a mention whose onscreen appearance is somewhat passable.

Finally; I will not suggest watching Meera Bai Not Out this weekend.