Sunny Leone’s buzz might have fizzled out a bit in the Bollywood industry, but she can never be out of the limelight! Can she?
This time she has achieved a big accolade. Sunny Leone has made it the BBC's 100 most influential women list.
It’s the fourth year for BBC’s 100 most influential women’s list, which includes a mixture of high-profile women who can be entrepreneurs, engineers, sportswomen, business women, fashion icons and artistes. Some of this year's high profile women include singer-songwriter Alicia Keys; US gold medal winning gymnast Simone Biles and French politician Rachida Dati.
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Sunny whose original name is Karenjit Kaur Vohra was a former porn star. Her first claim to fame in Bollywood was Bigg Boss in 2011. That’s when Pooja Bhatt noticed her and Sunny made her Bollywood debut in 2012 with Pooja’s erotic thriller Jism 2. Post that Sunny worked in various other Bollywood films like, Jackpot and Ek Paheli Leela.
She was the most searched celebrity on Google for 3 years in a row (2014-2016).
Recently she was in news for her documentary, Mostly Sunny, which was premiered in this year’s MAMI festival and got a whopping 4 screenings. The documentary unravels several unknown aspects of the porn-star-turned-Bollywood-actress.
Mostly Sunny has already been released at the Toronto International Film Festival and was well-received. It also premiered at the MAMI Film Festival and got a whopping 4 screenings.
However, you may recall that Sunny has dissociated herself from the movie. Reason? She feels that the docu is not her story but someone else’s vision. The Mastizaade actress even skipped the TIFF premiere of her documentary because she wasn’t comfortable with certain sequences in the film and wanted them to be snipped. However, nothing could be changed at that point of time (Sunny Leone Documentary To Release Worldwide On Netflix, Oct 20).
