'No one is looking at my crop now': Andhra farmer puts up Sunny Leone's poster to ward off 'evil eye'

In an unusual move to 'ward off evil eye', a farmer in Andhra Pradesh’s Nellore district has put up a giant poster of Bollywood actress Sunny Leone in his field.

A Chenchu Reddy, a 45-year-old farmer from Kindi Palle village, is not exactly a fan of Sunny Leone and says that he used the poster so villagers do not look at his bumper crop and instead focus on the Indian-Canadian porn star. 

“This year, I have a good crop of 10 acres. This has been attracting the unnecessary attention of villagers and passersby. To ward off their evil eye, I thought of this idea of putting up the big flax poster of Sunny Leone a couple of days ago,” he was quoted as saying by Hindustan Times.

The poster of Sunny Leone in a red skimpy bikini also has a line written on it in Telugu, “Orey, nannu chusi edavakura (Hey, don’t cry or feel jealous of me)!”

Apparently Sunny Leone in a sultry pose has kept all the attention to herself and Reddy's crop has been saved from 'evil eye' and Reddy has a bumper crop of cauliflower and cabbage.

“The trick has worked. Nobody is looking at my crop now,” Reddy said.

Superstition-steeped farmers in rural Andhra Pradesh use different tactics like scarecrows with an upside down clay pitcher, fearsome dolls (called “bommalu” in Telugu) and demons drawn on a metal plate or a pumpkin to scare away birds and block the “dishti bomma” or evil eye.

But use of a poster of a porn star-turned-actor is a first anyone has ever heard of. 

Reddy thinks he has not breached any indecency law nor does he care about officials or police finding the poster objectionable.

“The officials never bother to come to our fields to find out our problems. Why should they have any objection?” he asked.