Sunny Leone Biopic Controversy: Change Title Or Face Consequences

Jul 18, 2018, 15:17 IST

Sultry actress Sunny Leone, who is currently working on her biopic titled 'Karenjit Kaur - The Untold Story of Sunny Leone', is in the midst of a controversy following
a demand to remove the name "Kaur" from the movie title, from the Sikh community. Manjinder Sirsa, an Akali Dal member has asked the makers of the movie to immediately remove the surname from the title. It is learnt that the politician warned Subash Chandra, Chairman of Essel Group, of dire consequences if the demand was not met.

The biopic on India's Most Googled Celebrity, Sunny Leone is set to reveal everything
about the actor's life since her days of being Karenjit Kaur. the film traces her life journey from her middle-class Sikh family beginnings in Canada to her transition into an adult film actor. The Sunny Leone biopic revolves around the hardships the actress faced in her life till she became successful. In 2012, Sunny became synonymous with 'Baby Doll', the popular song from her second Bollywood movie, Ragini MMS 2, following her sensational debut with Jism 2.

From a Girl Next Door to her extraordinary transformation from an adult film star into
becoming Bollywood's top female actor, the Canada-born actress's journey has been portrayed in the web-series.

The latest controversy revolves around the usage of "Kaur" in the title, which Sunny
has dropped from her name. The only objection is that since the actress' name does not include "Kaur", it has to be dropped from her biopic title, Manjinder Sirsa said. “There is no objection regarding her profession or her personal life. Our only objection is that we want them to remove the surname ‘Kaur’ because when she herself had earlier dropped ‘Kaur’ from her name, why is it being used now? We have urged the movie makers to immediately remove it or face consequences,” he said.

Following Sirsa's demand, the campaign urging the makers to drop Kaur from title gained further momentum on social media. However, many people came in support of Sunny Leone. Here's what they said:

Nobody objected when Sukhvinder Kaur changed her name to Radhe Maa and Gurmeet Singh became Baba Ram Rahim, for the reasons best known to them. Then why this whole fuss over Sunny Leone using her original name, Karenjit Kaur? What’s in a name? Also, Sunny has done no crime.

— Sonam Mahajan (@AsYouNotWish) July 16, 2018

What utter rubbish. It's @SunnyLeone's name, not something this body endows, with or without its misogynist double standards. https://t.co/Vz0SY3KQBM

— Karuna Nundy (@karunanundy) July 16, 2018

When you carry the vagina in your mind, then men like Sisra object to Sunny Leone being a Kaur abc her very being.@MGNTheTwin

— Mini Nair (@minicnair) July 17, 2018

Ppl need to chill & let Sunny Leone live in regards to her biopic title Karenjit Kaur. The patriarchy & comments made around this are absolutely disgusting its really not needed. The double standards within the community is ridiculous. A man can do whatever but a woman can’t...

— Rupinder Kaur (@RupinderKW) July 17, 2018

Heard some Sikh orgs are objecting to @SunnyLeone using ‘Kaur’. The concept of ‘Singh/Kaur’ was introduced to prevent names being indicative of people’s role/class/status. Why are they imposing their own ‘class’ system, defying the very teachings of the very gurus they worship?

— Parminder Singh (@parrysingh) July 18, 2018

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