Bollywoods Bunga Bunga Boom…despite Censor Uncle Pahlaj Nihalani

Isn't it time to stop being squeamish about sex?



Bunga bunga, Bollywood’s production of sex flicks is booming. Quite ironically, this is at a juncture when the Pahlaj Nihalani-steered Censor Board wants the world to believe that sex doesn’t exist.



If the new government’s appointee, Nihalani, could get his way moviegoers would be convinced that all of us were born out of immaculate conception. He’s asking for trouble (or removal), the Bollywood worthies are grousing, but haven’t been able to obstruct the producer-turned-censor chief’s jehad against sex, not yet.

Quite ironically, Nihalani had once himself produced a forgettable called Mitti Mein Sona in which the then svelte Sonam (now Mrs Sonam Rai) had portrayed, erm well, a lady of the night on the prowl. His immensely successful Aankhen – with Govinda and Chunky Pandey – was a tsunami of double entendres.

Don’t take this report as a harangue against Nihalani – he must have plenty of  sexy biryani on his plate already. Take it as a report on how films associated with the most adored four-letter word is about to begin. At last hearing, Ekta Kapoor’s XXX, narrating six sex stories, was sizzling ahead at the studios. Once to be directed by the burnt-out Ram Gopal Varma, the Sex Sutra is being piloted by Ken Ghosh. Ohmygosh, you don’t know him. No issues, you shouldn’t.

Even faintly known starlets have avoided participation in Sexcess. So,naturally newcomers have been cast in the half a dozen episodes, two of which we have reliably heard, deal with a housewife and her servant (wink wink, you know what that means), and hai rabba, an incestuous relationship.Keep the smelling salts ready for the censor aunts and uncles, please.

And of course, it’s no secret that Kya Kool Hain Hum! is set for a third boys’ night out. And chances are that Ragini MMS, two under the belt already, won’t grind to a halt either after Sunny Leone sexed the nation with the rasping gasping anthem Baby Doll.






PNC’s Mastizaade toplining Sunny Leone is in a censor soup, although her Kuch Kuch Locha Hai with the tubby Ram Kapoor wasn’t. Neither was an oddity titled Barkha, showing an unknown blondish cougar, which has toted a 50 days’ run at a single-screener or two.





Ms Leone has become the audience’s delight, the censors’ shoo-go-away. Ek Paheli Leela clicked and how. Poonam Pandey continues to bump and grind. An opitimist, she is.



After virtually losing their credit cards, with the creaky corny grandma comedy Nani (Rekha, budhi ho gayee kya?), the duo Ashok Thakeria-Indra Kumar have announced Great Grand Masti. If there’s a pun intended in ‘grand’, go figure! And not to forget, the surprisingly successful Pyaar ka Punchnama, which served sex unapolgetically, is due for a return. More ‘sex’ than ‘pyaar’,but what’s in a word really?



Incidentally, the word ‘virgin’ was sought to be erased from Homi Adajania’s Finding Fanny. A Herculean protest later, hallelujah it was preseved. And the V-word crept into Piku, quite cleverly, since Amitabh Bachchan as a Bengali old man, pronounced it as ‘bhorjhin’, while alluding to his daughter’s non-bhorjin status.



Ticklish as all this may be, sex flicks are out to make whoopee. And why not? To see or not to see is the spectator’s option. On the downside the Mukesh and Mahesh Bhatt’s blend of sex and horror – they were the pioneers, in fact, in a way with Raaz, Murder, Jism and what not – has run dry. A diminishing section opts for the see option.






So what?  Sex is man’s favourite sport. No one has a monopoly over it. Bunga bunga, you can bet, will survive and thrive.



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