Mohar Basu (BOMBAY TIMES; December 28, 2015)
Mandana Karimi is hardly the goody-goody person that she appears to be on Bigg Boss 9. Barring her coy act with Keith Sequeira, she has mostly stuck to her mantra of 'no-friends-no-family' so far and plays the sympathy card to her advantage quite frequently. But the team of her upcoming film Kyaa Kool Hain Hum 3 is of the opinion that she was hardly like that on their set. A source said, “We were doing a photo shoot for the film and Mandana was given a pair of hot pants and a crop top to wear. But she insisted on wearing bikini and picked up a sexy two-piece instead. The Mandana we know is affirmative, feisty and a firecracker. It is hard to relate to her damsel-in-distress avatar.“