Sunny Leone said at a press meet that if media doesn’t cease using the word ‘objectification’ when it came to special numbers, people will lose jobs.
Sunny Leone was in Kochi recently to promote SJ Sinu’s Tamil film Petta Rap which has Prabhu Deva and Vedhika in lead roles. The film will see Sunny in a special appearance. At a press meet, the actor was asked about her ‘item songs’ and here’s what she had to say. A reporter asked Sunny about her ‘numerous item songs’, adding, “Certain people think these songs objectify women, there’s another view that these songs show women on a big scale…” But before the reporter could finish, Sunny got defensive, “So, the only person that uses the first part of your sentence (objectification) is only the media.
Sunny also claimed that scores of people come to theatres just to enjoy these songs and remembered when she watched a video of people of Kerala dancing to her numbers. “Thousands of people come to theatres to watch movies because of these songs. We are now coming out of that generation but there was a time when people, I remember people in Kerala dancing on stage,” she said.
The actor insisted she treated it as ‘entertainment and enjoyment’ and not ‘objectification’. She went on to say that one day, using the word ‘objectification’ will cost jobs. She said, “Now, you tell me, that’s not objectification, that’s enjoyment. That is entertainment and that’s what we are able to do that for the audience.”. We have to stop using the term and make sure cinema is at the top, we all have to work together or else none of us will be employed.”
In her career, Sunny has featured in special numbers such as Low Aana Lifeu, Sesamma, Trippy Trippy and Deo Deo. And very soon, she shall be starring in the Malayalam films Rangeela and Shero, Tamil films Veeramadevi, Quotation Gang Part 1, Kannada film UI and Hindi films Koka Kola and Helen. She is also a part of a special number in The Battle of Bhima Koregaon.
Petta Rap also features Vivek Prasanna, Bagavathi Perumal, and Kalabhavan Shajohn. Titled after Prabhu’s chartbuster number from the 1994 film Kadhalan, the film is about a man and woman who strive hard to become an action hero and a pop singer respectively.
At the same press meet, director Sunny Leone revealed that they decided to make the film in Tamil and cast Prabhu as it required plenty of ‘dance moves’. “We didn’t think it would be easy to find an actor in Kerala who could be a part of a complete dance musical, so we roped in Prabhu Deva,” he said.
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