By Sangeeth Sebastian
Whether you like it or not Internet is for porn. Even Prime
Minister Narendra Modi, whose mandarins are currently on a mission to muzzle
online porn, must have realised that after his drubbing by a former porn-star
for the title of the “most searched personality” on Google. The result should
not come as surprise for Modi fans.
The Indo-Canadian genetic hotchpotch has been holding the reigns
for the most searched celebrity in India ever since she made her debut
in 2011 through Bigg Boss, a popular reality show sanitising her image as an American porn star and later gaining mainstream acceptability through a string of soft-core Bollywood films suitable to the “cultural
sensibilities” of the Indian audience. Never mind her continuing online
presence as a porn starlet peddling everything from used underwear’s to
replicas of her vagina “moulded directly from Sunny Leone’s own supple pussy”
as a product description on Amazon states, for a tidy profit.
In fact it is this dichotomy between her spruced up
Bollywood image and her no-holds-barred attitude on the web that has
successfully helped her to retain the numero uno position, year after year.
Sunny Leone’s cleverly constructed image perfectly fits into
the Indian hypocrisy and double standards on sex, making her at once a “saint”
(for her mainstream audience) and a “slut” (for the sexually repressed Indian).
Her dual identity also makes her the new Savita Bhabhi in
flesh and blood. There are some striking similarities between Sunny and Savita,
an online cartoon dubbed as “India ’s
first true porn star” that quickly won millions of fans across the country
before being banned by the government in 2009.
Both Sunny and Savita are married and in their early thirties, making the pair ideal to be termed as cougars a popular porn parlance for sexually aggressive older women.
Like Savita who hides her secret sexual escapades with
office colleagues, door-to-door salesmen and servants, from her husband, Sunny
too hides or at least tries to hide her secrets from her mainstream viewers,
revealing her true, errr…bare-self only to fans who pursue her online. (Talk
about cross-over appeal).
After all, Indians can be an equally aspirational lot when
it comes to sex too. MILF (Mother’s I’d Like to Fuck), a popular online porn
category for Indians, according to A
Billion Wicked Thoughts, a book on how human desires work online, by MIT
and Boston researchers Ogi Ogas and Sai Gaddam, for instance, has an
aspirational ring to it. It is not ‘Mother’s I can Fuck’ but it’s ‘Mother’s I’d like to Fuck’ there is a sense of accomplishment that comes with
this vicarious conquest. Even Modi’s legendary charm and working class connect
can prove insufficient before such primordial impulses.
‘Ragini MMS 2,’ a Bollywood thriller known for its sleaze
quotient, starring Sunny had also topped the charts this year for the most
searched movie online in the 'Trending' category that also featured Modi. Modi will not be
looking forward to any sequels.
