''Karenjit Kaur – The Untold Story of Sunny Leone'' is a

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Original web series. The series captures the journey of former pornstar-turned-actor

Sunny Leone Karenjit Kaur Vohra (born May 13, 1981), known by her stage name Sunny Leone (), is a Canadian-American model and actress in the American and Indian film industries. She is a former pornographic actress. She was born in Canada to an Indian S ...

, born in a middle-class Sikh family, and her makeover from being an innocent girl to an adult film actress and eventually a Bollywood star. The twenty-episode biopic premiered on the platform on 16 July 2018 on ZEE5 in multiple languages, including Malayalam, Bengali, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada and Marathi.

Description

The biopic stars ,

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, Rysa Saujani, Karamvir Lamba, Bijay Jasjit Anand, Grusha Kapoor, Vanish Pradhan and Marc Buckner. Karenjit tells her story on her terms, in her inimitable style – one with no regrets. Right from her reasons of getting into the adult industry, choosing the name Sunny to owing meeting her husband to the industry itself. Directed by Aditya Datt and written by Karan Sharma, the series reveals her history, family, boyfriend-turned-husband Daniel Webber and traces lesser-known facts about her transformation from an adult film star to a popular actress. The show was primarily shot in

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. The shoot was over by May 2018.

Cast

as Karenjit Kaur Vohra/Karenjit Kaur Weber/Karen Malhotra/Sunny Leone (Herself) *Rysa Saujani as Young Karenjit * Bijay J. Anand as Jaspal Singh Vohra * Grusha Kapoor as Balwant Kaur Vohra *

as Anupam Chaubey, a news anchor * Karamvir Lamba as Sundeep *Vansh Pradhan as Young Sundeep * Marc Buckner as Daniel Weber : Karenjit's Husband. * Johan Badh as Nate * Joanna Robaczewska as Tanya * Ritu Shivpuri as Neena, Jaspal Singh Vohra's love interest * Manoj Singh Panwar as Manager

Episodes

Season 1

Season 2

Season 3

Reception

First post ''Firstpost'' is an Indian online news and media website. The site is a part of the Network 18 media conglomerate owned by Reliance Industries, which also runs CNN-News18 and CNBC-TV18. The ''Network 18'' group was originally owned by Raghav ...

made a statement that the screenplay of the series is cleverly written and portrayed karenjit's life perfectly. The writer did a great job by not implying on the sexual references and focus more on other aspects of her life. Sunny Leone's performance in her own life story is applaudable as she had to live her life and relive all the good and bad experiences all over again.

Hindustan Times ''Hindustan Times'' is an Indian English-language daily newspaper based in Delhi. It is the flagship publication of HT Media, an entity controlled by the KK Birla family, and is owned by Shobhana Bhartia. It was founded by Sunder Singh Lyall ...

rated the series with 3/5 stars. The main focus of the story is on the girl raised in a conservative Sikh household and her journey from becoming an adult star and entering bollywood. The series displays her story with a bit of a melodrama that gives it the feel of a daily soap. The actors in the webseries nonetheless, play it subtly.

The Indian Express ''The Indian Express'' is an English-language Indian daily newspaper founded in 1932. It is published in Mumbai by the Indian Express Group. In 1999, eight years after the group's founder Ramnath Goenka's death in 1991, the group was split betw ...

says that the webseries was surprisingly a smooth ride. They were also critical about a few melodramatic scenes with few moments of poor acting. The series show parts were one can understand that Sunny has always been the dignified and hard-working individual she is admired for today. However, Sunny hardly has any screen time in the pilot of the series, and she did perform well on screen.

The Quint ''The Quint'' is an English and Hindi language Indian general news and opinion website founded by Raghav Bahl and Ritu Kapur after their exit from Network18. The publication's journalists have won three Ramnath Goenka Excellence in Journalism Aw ...

gave a review of the series getting quite good responses in Season 1. The first season shows most parts of Sunny's love life. The new season, however, is much more interesting. The most remarkable thing about season 2 is how all the 6 episodes show only bits of Sunny’s porn career. The webseries clearly doesn’t have the best production values. Anyhow, the second season makes Karenjit feel more human than ever.

References

External links

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