SAINDIA AUGUST 2016
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COVER FEATURE<br />
Sunny days are here again!<br />
Sunny Leone on her life and times, Bollywood and beyond<br />
Sunny Leone’s last Bollywood release<br />
One Night Stand turned out to be a<br />
cropper at the box office, but the girl<br />
says that One Night Stands are fine at<br />
times... but there are certain clauses.<br />
“If you are single and can let your<br />
heart overrule your head, then a onenight<br />
stand is fine. But if you are committed<br />
in a relationship, one should<br />
think about the consequence of such<br />
an act. It is normal to have desires and<br />
be physically attracted, but one should<br />
avoid one night stands when they<br />
are in relationships,” says the former<br />
adult star.<br />
“I am a woman and have lived life on<br />
my terms. I have not danced to other’s<br />
tunes. I have had many good things<br />
because of that, but then I have had a<br />
few things that did not go my way because<br />
I wanted to do things the way I<br />
wanted. But that’s fine,” says the Jism<br />
2 actress, who however did dance to<br />
Shah Rukh’s tunes recently.<br />
Meanwhile Sunny Leone was shocked<br />
and surprised when she received a call<br />
from Shah Rukh Khan asking her if<br />
she was keen to do an item song with<br />
him in the film Raees directed by Rahul<br />
Dholakia. The film is a period drama<br />
set in the 80s and has the famous<br />
Qurbani track Laila O Laila recreated<br />
in it and Khan wanted her to gyrate on<br />
that number with him in the film.<br />
“I was not sure whether he wanted<br />
to speak to Sunny Leone or Sunny<br />
Deol,” she says. Sunny was more than<br />
surprised when she realised that it was<br />
Shah Rukh on the other line. “I was<br />
actually a bundle of nerves as well<br />
and was pretty excited to him with<br />
him. It was a moment to cherish,”<br />
says the actress.<br />
Sunny is now looking forward towards<br />
working with another Khan<br />
who has reached out to her, Aamir<br />
Khan. “at the moment there is nothing<br />
happening with Aamir Khan, but<br />
I do hope and pray that it does,” says<br />
the actress<br />
For Sunny Leone, it’s been quite a<br />
journey from Canada to the Adult<br />
movie industry and then into Bollywood<br />
and now she is entrenched as<br />
a Bollywood actress. She grew up in<br />
what she calls a “Punjabi home” in<br />
Canada. “We ate Indian food every<br />
day except on Fridays and Saturdays,<br />
which were branded as ‘American’<br />
days. It meant that we had Italian or<br />
Chinese or Mediterranean but certainly<br />
not dal, roti or sabzi.” She moved to<br />
California when she was 14 and went<br />
on to finish her high school there.<br />
The move from a Punjabi house to the<br />
Penthouse wasn’t perhaps the easiest<br />
thing for her to do. But the adult<br />
magazine made Leone then 21 an<br />
offer she couldn’t refuse. “The offer<br />
came in 2003 via an agent who told<br />
me that I would only need to pose for<br />
pictures in exchange for a handsome<br />
amount of money. The money was superb.<br />
Honestly, getting pictures shot<br />
in one’s<br />
birthday suit is not the easiest thing to<br />
happen to any girl, but then the output<br />
in terms of the photographs stunned<br />
me. I wondered how I could look so<br />
stunning,” says the woman who swept<br />
across the centrefold of the magazine.<br />
Leone – the name was given to her<br />
by Penthouse owner Bob Guccione<br />
-- has no qualms admitting that she<br />
joined adult film industry on her own<br />
accord. “I knew what I was doing, no<br />
one forced me into the business. I run<br />
my own company and make my own<br />
films and that is reason enough for me<br />
to be proud of my work,” she says.<br />
The actress believes she was always<br />
made for the glamour industry. “The<br />
hair, the make-up, the clothes and my<br />
connect with the camera, it was there<br />
to see when I did my photo shoots.<br />
Entertainers have a connection with<br />
the camera and that is how they connect<br />
with the people watching them. It<br />
is a part of a true entertainer’s DNA.”<br />
And after coming to Bollywood, one<br />
of the things she loves here are the autorickshaws<br />
in Mumbai. “I just love<br />
these rickshaws. It is probably the<br />
easiest and fastest ways of transportation<br />
in Mumbai as these guys can<br />
get through anywhere in between cars<br />
too. I had a couple of rickshaw rides.<br />
It was fun. I also got in trouble when<br />
one of my directors said that I don’t<br />
want you to take any chances<br />
in rickshaws and<br />
trav-<br />
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