Whether Kabir Bedi asked for Sunny Leone’s number or not, is irrelevant!

 That  entertainment journalism has hit rock bottom in India is  a fact we must sadly accept. But even by the current   abysmal standards   of news-worthiness ,the  “news” that  Sunny Leone had refused  to share her mobile number with  Kabir Bedi.

The  news first appeared on a sensation-hungry entertainment  portal which sniggeringly added  that Ms Leone instead  gave Kabir  her husband  Daniel Weber’s  number. If  this was  not the most non-newsy entertainment  news of  the year, Kabir Bedi  made it worse  by tweeting  angrily against what he described as ‘scurrilous’ news reporting.

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 I  wonder what  is  so  “scurrilous” about getting/not getting  a telephone  number?!

An actor who was  present at  the event where this  ‘scurrilous’ incident happened(photographer  Daboo  Ratnani’s  annual calendar launch)  says, “I saw  Kabir Bedi speaking to  Sunny Leone and her  husband. Don’t know  about the exchange of  phone numbers. But it is a fact that Sunny doesn’t give  her number to anybody. Even the  biggest  of stars  are given her  husband’s number.”

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 As far  as  such trivia  making headlines  is concerned, one wonders why Kabir couldn’t ignore the  seemingly baseless chitchat for what it was: inconsequential nonsense.

Kabir Bedi is  one  of  India’s first actors  to make a name for himself  in international cinema with the lead  in the Italian television series Sandokan and also as the turbaned villain to James  Bond in Octopussy. Whether he  asked for  Sunny Leone’s number or not, is irrelevant. What is  relevant is, does this  kind  of  reportage and rejoinder befit his  stature?