Mostly Sunny

Apparently the director had a falling out w Sunny over the film,so i was expecting something at least mildly interesting, and it was. It was quite slow at times though so i cant rate it too highly, and it honestly just made me feel bad for the woman known as Sunny Leone as she comes across as much less intelligent that i thought, as she appears to be just another dumb girl from porn trying to cash in on her 15 minutes of fame,however she can. Most of the things she talks about is how she is able to make money and did porn to make money and she rarely says anything intelligent. After seeing the film I honestly feel kind of sorry that her life seems that empty and that there is nothing.. behind the facade. I do not think whatever fame she has will last much longer as she is pretty much just a good looking girl who is good at dancing, who happened to do porn,and happens to be from India at a time when they are just realizing what internet porn is. Beyond that she shows no actual talent or intelligence so i will say the film was decently interesting to see the veil lifted a bit and see how banal this persons life is. (She does seem like a nice person however, but.. acting is probably not her thing.). This is probably why she did not like the films true portrayal of her...as there isn't much of anything beyond the facade.

I watched i could see something more but nothing was there. She good at item number but worse in acting. Ppl better see her good one another screen.

I hope it's not simply because I found the subject, Karen (porno name "Sunny"), to be so attractive and engaging that I enjoyed this film so much. Really, I am NOT in love with her. OK, maybe I developed a _slight_ crush, ahem; anyway... I had read that the she and her husband/agent(?) had had a disagreement about the content (specifically the sparse nudity) with the director that led to a lawsuit to remove it (which they lost), but I cannot imagine why, because the film overall makes her out to be an intelligent, articulate, hard-working, REAL person, and frankly, if there wasn't a little nudity, the movie would be incomplete (or at least a bit disappointing) ;). After watching "Hot Girls Wanted", another "inside look at the porn industry", I felt like I needed to take a (hot) shower. THAT poorly made "film" (video) verified the exploitation of girls by men who can only be described as pimps (and even calling them THAT is being kind) that the porn industry really is. Smoking, tattoos, drug use, profanity; just how one would imagine a bunch of (admittedly young, sexy) whores in a cheap, dirty hotel suite would behave. "Mostly Sunny" is quite opposite. The deep, sensitive, emotional human side - which would seem to be extremely elusive to evoke and capture from a woman who has not only acted in porn, but also been criticized thoroughly and maliciously, and who is now happily monogamous with a pleasant man who really seems to be her soul mate (if you believe in that; happens I do) - comes across just as well as her absolutely stunningly beautiful face in the many extreme closeups. The production value is far above what I expected, although the first half starts to drag a bit and I wish they'd included more of the perfectly choreographed dancing scenes they tease with.

I've mentioned "Sunny" (the character, not the film) to the last four Indian men I talked to and they all get this smirk and say almost exactly the same thing - "Oh yes, I've heard of her, who are we to judge her past?!". None had seen this movie; this is simply the Indian quality of forgiveness that's allowed her to reach the level of popularity among men AND women in Bollywood that she's reached. Nice, for a change. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did.

A relatively interesting, albeit superficial documentary about a middling-to-low intellect woman who makes it big from porn--particularly in the subcontinent. The film details the self-orchestrated rise to stardom (lit. to a lechers' idol) of the Canadian-Indian porn-cum-Bollywood actress, "Sunny Leone".

The central theme of the film is money and her erurience for making as much of it as possible. The capitalist / colonialist influences that imbue her every utterance, are clear to discern (even if she is surely complete unconscious of it): she sells herself -- be it as a proud, on-screen whore, or as something more wholesome -- to the highest bidder, in an effort to realise her dreams of, frankly, being rich. (NB: She makes a point of disabusing the audience of any assumption of her being "poor" in her childhood -- only that she could was not given "everything" she wanted, was all.)

Of course, as is often the case with porn actors, "Sunny" seems to have the same delusion of grandeur: imagining herself as a 'Meryl Streep' locked in a naked vessels of tawdry titillation. Most all of her ilk seemingly (indeed, comically!) suffer from the same pathological obliviousness to what is laughably obvious to everyone else: that their only allure is the erotica they engage in -- an allure lasting not a minute longer than the dopamine intoxication in their voyeurs' brains does! To be fair, however, this is something that is touched on later in the film -- when "Sunny" ruminates on her reception by what she fantasies of as being her (Bollywood) acting peers.

The biggest take-aways from this film for mine were, 1) the reverberative effects of females entering into pornography at a young (teens) age -- regarding their their apparently ubiquitous stunted maturity and intellect; 2), the rather seedy and almost puerile nature of Indian attitudes towards sex, the sex industry and its workers -- especially accentuated, in light of the veritable rape epidemic that the nation has been afflicted by for Shiva knows how long (see: Indian banned BBC doco "India's Daughters", for a deeper insight); 3), the de rigueur exploitation of females in said fields and how women / girls themselves even enable this environment to flourish; and 4), the decadent societies that we exist in (rich or poor), which foster, propagate and perpetuate these sordid industries, and which render them as lucrative as they have become.

NB: A special mention with regards to her introspection relating to "Sunny's" parents, which appears in the latter part of the film -- her child-like admissions of guilt (...?) here, cast an umbral shadow over her story; and therefore must be seen and factored in, in order to provide context for the film (and her story) as a whole.

7.5/10

I really loved the movie, pictures the journey of a girl who had the confidence to transition from an adult industry and be accepted by the audience of India

I want to know where the song " Yahaan wahaan" which plays at 53:26 mins of the movie is taken from?