Why Sunny pipped Modi

                                         

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.