Suma Guha suspects 'bogus' film producers

Actor Suma Guha, who was shocked to see her pictures being used on a website offering escort services in Delhi, is hoping that police crack the case soon. While the model-turned-actor from Mumbai, who has done two Tamil films Durai and Vanayuddham, protests that she hasn’t done any photo shoot in skimpy clothes, she suspects that it might have been done by a few bogus producers from the south. “Earlier I got some offers in Tamil and Kannada under the condition that i did some ‘favours’ in return, but I rejected them. Maybe a few of them who wanted to teach me a ‘lesson’, could have done this. Somebody who wanted to take a dig at my reputation could have done this too,” she says.

“I just want to let people know that it is not me on that website,” adds the actor. She further alleges that perpetrators have morphed the pictures she took three years ago. “Those pictures were released on the internet earlier, but I didn’t take it seriously. But it was shocking to see the same pictures on an escort service website,” she says. Her parents, though initially shocked, have supported her ably.

In the investigation so far, the cyber cell of Mumbai police has informed her that the SIM card of the contact number given in the site was purchased in Mumbai. “We have also found that the website is being operated from Kolkata,” says the model-cum-actor. The only relief for Suma now is that the registration for the website ends in October. “The site has been registered in 2010 and is valid till October this year. No one has renewed the site yet and I hope it will vanish in two months,” she says.