The war of words between Kajal Agarwal and a men's magazine intensified further on Tuesday, with the actress denying that she had ever posed topless and with the magazine's editor confirming that the photograph was not fake.

Kajal claimed that the picture was distorted and she said, “I shot for the magazine but not this way. They have photo-shopped the picture and changed it.”

Reacting to this, FHM India editor Kabeer Sharma said in a statement: “FHM has never, in the past or will in the future, morph pictures of any celebrity. We shot with madam Agarwal on the 18th of August in Mumbai and have a full team composed of assistants, stylists, makeup artists, photographers and others to back it up. We’d be happy to release the full untouched raw pictures on the internet soon to back it up also.”

“Furthermore we also have a model release form signed by Kajal herself. To say that the picture is morphed is an insult to both the brand FHM as well as the collective intelligence of you (her fans) as well as anyone with half an idea about how Photoshop works. We don’t know what exactly made Kajal change her mind after the shoot but if she did, the magazine really cannot be blamed,” he added.