What’s the quickest way for a female wannabe to hit a jackpot in showbiz if she hasn’t got a godfather nor the patience to slog for a lucky break? Strip! The likes of Sherlyn Chopra and Poonam Pandey have been trailblazers and now we see similar eager-to-strip wannabes yenning for their fifteen minutes of fame.

The economics of the art of stripping works on a simple rule: lesser the clothes, the more the eyeballs grabbed. Talent, or the lack of it, can take a walk. What one needs is, first of all, a Twitter account or a Facebook page, and a couple of drooling followers. What one doesn’t need is inhibitions. Put right, this combination, plus a good cameraman with an eye to capture sensuality, can catapult a siren from anonymity to fame overnight.

This is the mantra the likes of Poonam Pandey, Sherlyn Chopra, Sakshi Pradhan, Madhavi Sharma, Madhurima Tulli and a lot of others have happily piggybacked on.

If Poonam has been rechristening herself as ‘Bikini’ Pandey, then Sherlyn recently stole a march on her by posting a naked image of hers. Poonam responded by posting a topless image of hers. And just a few days back we saw the otherwise demure Sneha Ullal (almost forgotten in Bollywood) posting a racy video of hers online.