Back in 2012, Sunny Leone was busy promoting her first Bollywood film, Jism 2. A porn star was entering the Hindi film industry – is what dominated the daily agenda of several fringe groups back then, with posters of the film being torn down and threats of theatres being torched doing the rounds.On her part, Sunny Leone had just about begun getting a hang of the Indian media and its nefarious ways. After speaking to her in one of her first interviews as a Bollywood actor, several pair of curious eyes followed me as I entered the office. One of my ex-colleagues couldn’t hold his excitement any longer and asked, “You spoke to the real Sunny Leone? How is she? Is she like (weird grin) what she is in the, you know…?” My ex-colleague respecting his seniority, had to swallow the words ‘porn movies’. And I had to tell him that yes, Sunny Leone was indeed the ‘real Sunny Leone’, as opposed to the disembodied fragments that certain minds had made her out to be. That was July 2012. Four years and several Hindi films later, it is still difficult for certain Indian minds to accept the fact that Sunny Leone is indeed a living, breathing human being – and a person who is on camera more often than not, at that. -
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