Every now and again, notoriously faggy Esquire will do something right. Like they did here with “Slumdog Millionaire” actress Frieda Pinto — bikinis, showers, striptease, the classics — but don’t get used to it or anything. Next month will be all chicks covered in dirt and old naked women befouling the Union Jack and maybe a four-page article on why nomadic Mongolian Capra Hircus goats are superior to Chinese Capra Hircus goats when it comes to cashmere fiber density. Trust.

Freida Pinto dressed like a pin-up with her legs up in the air in Indian GQ might be the best thing you see all week, unless you caught wind that there might be pornography on the internet. Then you might find something better. But you might also find some girl taking a shit in a plastic cup. Don’t say I didn’t warn you first.

In the November 2011 Men of the Year issue:

“Slumdog Millionaire” star Freida Pinto sexes up the pages of next month’s Maxim magazine, but you wouldn’t know it was her to look at the pictures. I don’t know why Maxim insists on photoshopping the hell out of everything they touch. Just compare the picture above with this picture from next month’s Glamour. I wouldn’t even think the two women were related, much less the same person. Unless it was for her role as Teri Hatcher’s evil Latina twin, I’d say Maxim really fucked this one up big time.

Maxim and Glamour pics, plus a bunch of older ones from various T&A magazines: