OMG! If only it was Sunny not Deepika

I don't know how many of you will watch a film with a totally desexed heroine. But given the current cause célèbre, there will be many viewers for this plausible Rs 1,000 crore/1,000-day super hit starring aforesaid desexed heroine: Deepika Padukone and her breasts. Okay, let me modify it a wee bit: Deepika Padukone and her breasts and her right not to be slut-shamed even if she enjoys her stardom due to the bod-delicious.

It is a crass attempt to attract hits by going "OMG" about it on the Google-search and social-media-dependent online industry but not everyone knows the difference between crass and its elegant counterpart. But let's save that for later. Inverting this argument, we should tell Sunny Leone to do only mythological roles and that too of mothers or grandmothers decked in fake ageing cream and white grey cotton wool for hair or quit Bollywood. I am sure she can act, what else can she do?

Isn't that the surplus value that jet-powers a film out of 700 yawn-grade films into the Rs 100 crore or more territory and each of these Rs 100 crore grossers unashamedly have the formulaic item number involving sundry Sheilas and their alluringly misspent youth, all to the tune of some catchy bust-heaving number?

Hello, people, is it okay if Sunny does her stuff and gets by while Deepika should claim the higher moral ground and go about "oh my god, what did they do to me" when they do the same choreographed-practiced thing? And please let us not blame the all-evil lascivious eye on the country bumpkin who wants his share of flesh on the screen (read: market, market), the city slicker sure doesn't mind some either (read: also market, market).  

Well, the Internet is a great leveller. Sunny Leone was Google India's most searched person in 2013. Let's not make fun of her: she was bigger than Deepika if one goes by Google India Zeitgeist 2013.

As for the class-crass conflict alluded to earlier, many newspapers still carry the archaic sounding corrigendum, some say correction. Maybe that's all that was due from the daily of dailies and not a general cross-the-board smite at the film industry and extreme holier-than-thou blah-blah. The film industry survives on the ambition of a few to make it to the top. And make it they will, without our collective anguish and breast-beating (oops) on the death of morals in post-globalisation India.

* This is not to say that the writer does not respect Sunny Leone and Deepika Padukone.