Sunny Leone Has Reshaped The Mindset Of Movie Goers

"Sunny Leone Has Reshaped The Mindset Of Movie Goers"- Koimoi Reader's View

Sunny Leone is a banal word and it is apparently cool to rubbish her has trash consistently, be it the virtuous Indian mentality which ostracizes her ceremoniously or critics who think it is beneath them to rate her films well. However, a fan of the actress and former adult star writes to Koimoi explaining how Sunny Leone is a defining moment for bold filmmakers who don't shy from experimenting in Bollywood. Read On -

Sunny Leone can warm up your hearts and lives even on a winter morning. She is unapologetically sexy and make no qualms about her po*n star' status. In fact she flaunts it and uses it to her own advantage. So whats the big' deal about her??? A firangi' adult film star with desi roots, making inroads into Bollywood. At first glance nothing looks out of the ordinary, Sunny Leone is just another wannabe. Technically she is one, but in her less than 3 years of Bollywood journey she has not only managed to break the glass ceiling but also created a space of her own, where she is the undisputed queen of oomph and sassiness.

Even before she physically arrived in India, Sunny Leone was already ruling the hearts of the Indian men as the queen of hidden folder downloads' and deleted browser history'. Her participation in the reality show Big Boss (Season 5) proved that fantasy' do become reality'. The whole nation was introduced to the existence of Sunny Leone. Her presence in the show was not only a historic (as well as controversial) moment for Indian television but was also a sign that things are about to change for better or for worse. Today when reality shows are scripted before hand to boost TRPs, Sunny Leone proved to be the only real' thing to come out of the show. People loved her down to earth personality and graceful beauty, without even knowing who she is or what she does. The entire men folk ditched their all time favourite cricket and football matches to watch her on national television and that too on a channel mostly dominated by women-centric shows, thus leaving their wives and girlfriends confused and jealous at the same time. The truth was soon out in the open, after all she is just a Google search away. Tongues were being wagged and tabloids were filled with juicy' details of her life and good times', so it was hardly a surprise that she overcame the likes of Deepika Padukone and Katrina Kaif to become the most searched Indian celebrity on the net.

The critics unanimously took pleasure in criticizing her debut Bollywood vehicle Jism 2 but fortunately for her critical acclaim' and box office collection' are not quite the best of friends in the Indian film industry. The makers of the film (the Bhatts) knew this very well and focused more on Ms. Leone than the film. Made on a smart budget the film got its target audience and everybody went laughing to the bank.

Now the million dollar question is, how does someone with a po*n background found acceptance as a leading lady of cinema, in a relatively conservative country like India? The answer may be found in her second Hindi film Shootout At Wadala where did a cameo appearance in the song Laila. Her role was that of a mujra (if you dare to say so) dancer . After one of her regular performances she is confronted by a man who demands sexual favour from her. She refuses but the man also refuses to give up. In the good old fashioned Bollywood manner the hero John Abraham (Manya Surve) and his right hand Tusshar Kapoor (Sheikh Munir) comes to the rescue and the dialogues that follows are something like this:

Sheikh Munir: Jab uski marzi nahin hain to zabardasti kyun kar raha nain.
The man: R***i (prostitute) hain saali.
Manya Surve: R***i bhi to aurat hi hain aur har aurat ki marzi hoti hain.

That feeling, that realization, that's exactly the effect that Sunny Leone had on us. She managed to do something what years of feminist theories and activities couldn't. She made us realize that working in a po*nographic film is just another good old profession. She is still is a woman, she still has her rights (right to choose and dispose) and above all she is entitled to love and respect just like any regular' human being. Thanks to her India is no longer a shy and coy nation, and we Indians are slowly and surely becoming more confident in expressing our sexual awakenings and desires. It is only a natural progression that Sunny Leone has been appointed as the face of MANforce condoms and imbesharam.com, India's first adult lifestyle web store. So where does she go from here. The promos of her next film Ragini MMS 2 looks promising (grab a bite of Sunny, reads the teaser) and there are talks of a documentary being planned on her life and career. In India being a celebrity has its own disadvantages and being a sexy celebrity means double the trouble. Not so long ago there were reports of her being replaced from No Entry Mein Entry (No Entry 2) because a certain senior actor doesn't want to share screen space with her. Thankfully there are bold filmmakers likeEkta Kapoor and Pooja Bhatt who doesn't shy away from cinematic experiments and showing the unspoken reality on celluloid.

Once in a blue moon comes an actor/star who challenges and reshapes the mindset of the movie going public and Sunny Leone is undoubtedly that rare phenomenon. And how true the words of her new song fromRagini MMS 2 sounds: