It was a mixed year for Sunny Leone, who had forgettable releases like EK Paheli Leela, Kuch Kuch Locha hai and did a host of cameos.
It’s been four years since she came here, but the nation’s enduring love for Sunny Leone simply seems to refuse to abate. For the fourth year running, she been named the ‘Most Googled Indian’ and it literally doesn’t matter what other event of cataclysmic consequence takes place. In a year when Virat Kohli became the Indian captain and Salman Khan was acquitted by a 2002-hit-and-run case, she’s still the most-searched Indian of the year. It was the same story last year when PM Narendra Modi’s BJP won a historic mandate but it seems that nothing that happens in the real world can displace Sunny Leone from the top.
It was a mixed year for Sunny Leone, who had forgettable releases like EK Paheli Leela, Kuch Kuch Locha hai and did a host of cameos. Now cinema-wise this wasn’t path-breaking by any stretch of imagination but she did stay in public consciousness throughout the year. She also launched her new workout series, but all in all whether we want to admit it or not, it’s probably her porn-star background that keeps her firmly on top of the ranking.
(Read: Why Sunny Leone threatens India's patriarchal system)
Psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud had argued that sex was the currency that made the world spin and no matter how hard we might try to hide it, repress it or pretend it doesn’t exist, that reality isn’t going away. In simple terms, horniness trumps everything – religion, politics, sports and any other human obsession feasible.
In fact, she’s become such a national obsession that Kanti Shah, the man known for the cult classic Gunda is actually planning to make a movie called Main Sunny Leone Banna Chahti Hoon, which sounds a lot like RGV’s Main Madhuri Dixit Banna Chahti Hoon. While Sunny Leone and her husband Daniel Webber were not impressed and planned to take action for using her name without permission, the incident does throw light on Sunny’s cultural currency in India. (Read: Why Sunny Leone might sue Kanti Shah)
Sunny V/S Moral Police
She was also at the centre of a controversy when CPI leader Atul Anjan – perhaps the only Indian who didn't know her identity, found about her existence and blamed her for condom ads for the rise in rape cases. He went on to watch her porn movies and claimed they made him want to 'vomit' and his statements were backed by ex-Chairperson of Delhi Commission of Women, Barkha Shukla joined the long of people to criticise Sunny Leone. She added: “...The shabby, ugly or immoral way the actress seduces or sexually provokes a man in the advertisement to use condoms is nothing but serving immorality and bad practice to the audience of the country which is not acceptable in a country of moral values, ethics, religious values and spiritualism renowned as abode of gods around the globe.”
Atul Anjan and Shukla joined a long list of moral justice warriors like Congress' Abhishek Manu Singhvi (a sex video connoisseur himself), BJP MP Anurag Thakur and Sri Ram Sene leader Pramod Muthalik. The sum-total of their criticism can be summed up as “society’s moral fabric being destroyed by ex-pornstar who is everywhere, how can India allow it?” All in all, Sunny has become an icon in her own right, and is even going to have a documentary on her journey soon.
Directed by filmmaker Dilip Mehta, Mostly Sunny Partly Cloudy is getting a full and formal worldwide release and will show a side of her which we haven't seen yet. All in all, it's fair to say that it's unlikely that she will be displaced by anyone. (Read: Thank you Sunny Leone for promoting safe sex)
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