Esha Gupta has bared her back for her thriller 'Raaz 3'. The newbie was seen struting her stuff in a scene where insects are attacking her due to Bipasha Basu's (who is the other lead in the movie) blackmagic. Here are the other famous topless acts.

Natalie Portman has gone topless for an ad for Dior's fragrance 'Miss Dior'. The sultry actress looks gorgeous in the advertisement.

Indo-Canadian porn star Sunny Leone, who made her Bollywood debut with Pooja Bhatt's Jism 2, has posed topless for FHM magazine, with just a sheer green sari covering her.

The Kardashian sisters went topless for a photoshoot to promote their new denim line for the brand Sears. Kim, Khloe and Kourtney posed wearing nothing but the jeans and are looking fabulous as usual.

Iranian actress Golshifteh Farahani has been exiled from her country after she posed topless for the magazine 'Madame Le Figaro'. She starred with Leonardo DiCaprio and Russell Crowe in the 2008 flick 'Body of Lies'

Veena Malik also landed in trouble when nude pictures of her appeared on the cover of FHM India. Veena however denied that she had posed for the magazine and even sued the publication. Her photos raised widespread protests in Pakistan

TV personality Mandira Bedi dropped her top for fashion bible, 'Vogue'

However she was hardly the first. Way back in 1993, actress Mamta Kulkarni posed topless for 'Stardust' magazine

Her act was tame in comparison to the other wild child of the 90s, Pooja Bhatt, who went nude and covered herself only in body paint for the cover of 'Movie' magazine

Meanwhile Models Milind Soman and Madhu Sapre, who were a couple at the time, had only a snake and Tuff shoes for company in this steamy ad

In 1999, Bipasha Basu, featured in an ad for New York Lotto with Vivek Oberoi giving the audience quite a treat

Miss India Neha Dhupia got literally into the skin of the character she played in 'Julie', with her pictures here for the promotional poster

Fellow beauty paegant winner Aishwarya Rai-Bachchan also took it off when showing how a sari blouse is worn correctly in Bengali movie 'Chokher Bali'

Model Udita Goswami turned quite a large number of men from saints to sinners with her topless act for the promotional poster of her debut film 'Paap'

In the meantime, Rakhi Sawant was working her way up the popularity ladder when she took off her clothes for Deepak Tijori's movie 'Khamosh'

We know Barbara Mori lost her top when canoodling with Hrithik Roshan in this steamy kiss for the movie 'Kites'

But way back in 2003, Mori was still spicing it up with this topless shoot for the cover of 'Maxim' magazine

And like all good item girls Sherlyn Chopra also did a bunch of topless shoots landing her a spot in international magazine 'Playboy

Before Panty-gate, Yana Gupta also took off her lingerie for the cover shoot of 'Maxim' magazine in India

Overseas, model Padma Lakshmi was photographed heavily pregnant and nude for 'Page Six Magazine'

And fellow model Lakshmi Menon was chosen to be part of the prestigious and very exclusive Pirelli calendar for 2011

Being abroad also made an influence on Mallika Sherawat who posted up these pictures of herself on the Los Angeles sets of her movie 'Hisss'

But they were also busy back home, like Amisha Patel who bared it all for 'The Man' magazine

Kareena's racy photos with boyfriend Saif for 'Kurbaan' also caused scandal with political activists even covering up a poster with a sari in Mumbai

But the stars persist, like Vidya Balan here who's regained some fashion acclaim with the sari but has lost her choli in the process!