'I am a porn star! Sex and Sunny Leone unlimited in Bollywood
ABSTRACTLocated at the intersections of international porn studies, celebrity studies, gender, sex and globalization, this article looks at the recent and unusual case of Sunny Leone, an Indo Canadian bisexual pornographic actress who successfully crossed over to Bollywood. By examining her many lives and avatars as an international porn star, a reality TV contestant, a Bollywood celebrity and now a show host on MTV India, who maintains an active presence on social and digital media I suggest that the unprecedented situation Sunny Leone has engendered in India presents us with a form of transnational onscenity: in other words, it brings to the fore the centrality of porn in the economies of global cross cultural exchange and forces us to rethink previous paradigms of both 'pornography' and stardom, two domains that have more or less remained mutually exclusive of each other in the sub continent. Leone's case brings to the fore economic, social and cultural exchanges between two mammoth entertainment i.