SAINDIA AUGUST 2016

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Sunny days are here again!
Sunny Leone on her life and times, Bollywood and beyond
Sunny Leone’s last Bollywood release
One Night Stand turned out to be a
cropper at the box office, but the girl
says that One Night Stands are fine at
times... but there are certain clauses.
“If you are single and can let your
heart overrule your head, then a onenight
stand is fine. But if you are committed
in a relationship, one should
think about the consequence of such
an act. It is normal to have desires and
be physically attracted, but one should
avoid one night stands when they
are in relationships,” says the former
adult star.
“I am a woman and have lived life on
my terms. I have not danced to other’s
tunes. I have had many good things
because of that, but then I have had a
few things that did not go my way because
I wanted to do things the way I
wanted. But that’s fine,” says the Jism
2 actress, who however did dance to
Shah Rukh’s tunes recently.
Meanwhile Sunny Leone was shocked
and surprised when she received a call
from Shah Rukh Khan asking her if
she was keen to do an item song with
him in the film Raees directed by Rahul
Dholakia. The film is a period drama
set in the 80s and has the famous
Qurbani track Laila O Laila recreated
in it and Khan wanted her to gyrate on
that number with him in the film.
“I was not sure whether he wanted
to speak to Sunny Leone or Sunny
Deol,” she says. Sunny was more than
surprised when she realised that it was
Shah Rukh on the other line. “I was
actually a bundle of nerves as well
and was pretty excited to him with
him. It was a moment to cherish,”
says the actress.
Sunny is now looking forward towards
working with another Khan
who has reached out to her, Aamir
Khan. “at the moment there is nothing
happening with Aamir Khan, but
I do hope and pray that it does,” says
the actress
For Sunny Leone, it’s been quite a
journey from Canada to the Adult
movie industry and then into Bollywood
and now she is entrenched as
a Bollywood actress. She grew up in
what she calls a “Punjabi home” in
Canada. “We ate Indian food every
day except on Fridays and Saturdays,
which were branded as ‘American’
days. It meant that we had Italian or
Chinese or Mediterranean but certainly
not dal, roti or sabzi.” She moved to
California when she was 14 and went
on to finish her high school there.
The move from a Punjabi house to the
Penthouse wasn’t perhaps the easiest
thing for her to do. But the adult
magazine made Leone then 21 an
offer she couldn’t refuse. “The offer
came in 2003 via an agent who told
me that I would only need to pose for
pictures in exchange for a handsome
amount of money. The money was superb.
Honestly, getting pictures shot
in one’s
birthday suit is not the easiest thing to
happen to any girl, but then the output
in terms of the photographs stunned
me. I wondered how I could look so
stunning,” says the woman who swept
across the centrefold of the magazine.
Leone – the name was given to her
by Penthouse owner Bob Guccione
-- has no qualms admitting that she
joined adult film industry on her own
accord. “I knew what I was doing, no
one forced me into the business. I run
my own company and make my own
films and that is reason enough for me
to be proud of my work,” she says.
The actress believes she was always
made for the glamour industry. “The
hair, the make-up, the clothes and my
connect with the camera, it was there
to see when I did my photo shoots.
Entertainers have a connection with
the camera and that is how they connect
with the people watching them. It
is a part of a true entertainer’s DNA.”
And after coming to Bollywood, one
of the things she loves here are the autorickshaws
in Mumbai. “I just love
these rickshaws. It is probably the
easiest and fastest ways of transportation
in Mumbai as these guys can
get through anywhere in between cars
too. I had a couple of rickshaw rides.
It was fun. I also got in trouble when
one of my directors said that I don’t
want you to take any chances
in rickshaws and
trav-
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