OK, this is just damned funny

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Brampton has a massive East Indian population. I don't know how many of you know what "Bollywood" is, but if you do....

MP tries to block DVD sale[/SIZE]
Co-starred in 2003 production

Liberal MP Ruby Dhalla is trying to block DVD sales of a Bollywood-style movie she co-starred in before her election to Parliament.

The politician, who represents Brampton-Springdale, claims Kyon Kis Liye (Why? And for Whom?) plus posters and photos for the low-budget 2003 Hamilton-made film were "doctored." She does not deny appearing in the movie.

Admitting yesterday "we've never seen a copy of the film," Dhalla, 35, said "they are misrepresenting myself ... they put my face on someone else's body, in clothes I never wore."

CLAIMS NO WAIVER

She also denied producer and co-star Charanjit "Chico" Sihra's claims she signed a distribution waiver, was paid $2,000 or gave a supportive TV interview at the premiere in an Albion Rd. cinema that screens made-in-India movies.

"We've asked them repeatedly to provide consent forms for the film, which I never signed," she said.

Fire destroyed his documents, countered Sihra, but an employee "witnessed her signing a consent paper," and is prepared to testify in any civil action.

Dhalla said the producer and proposed distributor in India are "opportunists" trying to exploit her status as an MP.

LAWYER SENT LETTER

On Nov. 4, her lawyer Timothy Pinos sent Sihra a letter insisting "Miss Dhalla has not authorized the inclusion of her performances in the cinematographic work ... and/or the distribution of still images, posters and/or promotional materials."

Release of images, including "altered still photos," would constitute publication of a likenesses "false and defamatory of her," Pinos wrote.

Dhalla added: "If we have to go through an injunction, we'll do whatever is necessary."

Lawyer Anthony Powell responded Jan. 27, telling Pinos "your client willingly participated," understood the film "was going to be produced and sold commercially," and Dhalla "waived any rights you allege she has."

Both letters were provided to the Sun by Sihra.

The Hamilton autobody shop owner and film sponsor said he recently assured Dhalla the movie has "nothing sexual."

During filming, "her mother was there every day ... there is no nudity, or sex," Sihra said.

Born in Winnipeg to parents from Punjab, and living in the GTA since 1995, Dhalla came second in the 1993 Miss India Canada pageant and later became a chiropractor.

Sihra said they met at a fashion show and, after dinner with her family, he promised a film role to the "nice-looking young woman.

"She wanted to be in Bollywood films," he said.

"She had a passion for the movie, but she's a politician now and doesn't want the DVD of the film released."

HAUNTS HER

Kyon Kis Liye came back to haunt Dhalla before her first federal victory in 2004.

Excerpts sent to media outlets arrived with an anonymous note implying the film was "banned in India" due to explicit love scenes.

But censors judged it "fit for public exhibition," a Government of India Central Board of Film Certification document states.

The steamiest excerpt showed the fully clothed starlet snuggling with a clad male star.

Nothing racy or offensive is what ranks as a "one-out-of-10" for love scenes, compared to some Bollywood movies, Dhalla said then.