Prime time raaslila

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Bigg Boss 5 (Colors) inmates, who have been torturing and putting off viewers with their boring dishum-dishum and tuchchi bak-bak over the most inane and nonsensical issues, must have put the fear of TRPs in channel heads. Those must have been hard days, searching for BB5 in the top 10 list and not finding it anywhere. But hard times call for hard measures, and sometimes these include stars of hardcore pornographic films.

Bigg Boss’ latest inmate, Sunny Leone aka Karen Malhotra, is a jani-mani kalakar of the adult pleasure world. She was Penthouse Pet of the Year and even voted one of the top 12 porn stars of 2010.
Bhagwan jhooth na bulvaye, maine porn dekhi hai. And honestly, I was gobsmacked at first, to see Sunnyji on BB5. How desperate are these guys at Colors, and how exploitative. Vaise toh bade family, girl child, aurat pe atyachaar ka bhashan dete rehte hain, but when their tail caught fire, they fatafat hired a porn star to get some attention.
But two things have happened since. First toh all my prejudices came tumbling out. Porn star! Haw-hai! Nangu-pangu lady in the midst of bhartiya nar and nari who don’t know who she is and what she does. All these sati-savitris — Juhi, the two Poojas, Mahek, Sonali, Shraddha — hugging and kissing her and calling her cute, unaware that Sunnyji is an expert at raaslila with hot-hot gopis. Hai! Kya bomb phatega, kitna mazaa aayega, when they get to know who she is.
But then I watched Sunnyji — in both her avatars — on Bigg Boss and on adult websites. I was shocked, yes, but that was about me, not her. I could not get my head around seeing this sex kitten in a regular situation, and that too with clothes — joking, laughing, talking about family, friends, Thanksgiving dinner. As if porn stars come in every night from Venus on a spaceship and then leave before dawn.
Sunny’s presence has challenged several notions of sex, parivaar, work and life, and I think it’s a great test to sift the hypocrites and prudes from the fully developed souls. Of course there will be jokes about Bigg Boss hiring “Bigg boobs”, and stuff like “Saara sheher mujhe Leone ke naam se jaanta hai”. Bigg Boss reject KRK will keep on proposing nikah and Pritish Nandy will keep tweeting naughty lines that Sunnyji inspires. Yet, and however despicable the intention of the Colors people was — to titillate and get more male viewers — I grew up a little in this last week. But I cleared the test in my second attempt. What about you?