Mumbai, Aug 20: Leading Bollywood actress, Aishwarya Rai, today refuted media reports of her secret visit to Pakistan, terming them as "false and baseless." "A ridiculously baseless note, claiming me to be in Pakistan, at politician's/diplomat's/house on a break for three days--is one big figment of someone's wild, almost suspect imagination," the actress, who was shooting for a film in London, said in a statement, forwarded by Subrota Roy Sahara, chairman of Sahara India Pariwar to the media. "Why would such a claim be made, of someone like me (dare I say a fairly renowned recognizable face) when I am obviously shooting in another country--in London. I haven't been to Pakistan ever," the actress, who is currently shooting for bride and prejudice, added. "This time they have gone too far and crossed all limits of decency with such ugly insinuations. This is serious--and if ignored, could then encourage many more such probabilities, which is absolutely not acceptable," she said.
"The media has no right to go ahead and print some speculation of such serious insinuations/attack/question the dignity and self respect of a lady... With political innuendoes...A wrong suggestion by the media today, if ignored, could take the shape of some other worse situation tomorrow--and the media cannot and must not be so irresponsible towards their national personalities," she said. Bureau Report