New York Times — NEW DELHI — A few weeks ago I went to see a Hindi movie at my local cinema. It was an unremarkable potboiler, a story of thwarted lovers and triumphant love, punctuated with song-and-dance sequences, percussive fisticuffs and the rhythmic hips of a voluptuous heroine.
I struggled to stay in my seat as the plot wound its long way to a laborious resolution. Most reviews I’ve read gave the film, “Ek Paheli Leela,” zero to two stars out of five, and I can see why. But it has sparked all kinds of conversations, jokes and a small skirmish involving at least two prominent politicians on Twitter. That’s because it stars Sunny Leone, a.k.a. Karenjit Kaur Vohra, the Indian heroine and reality-show personality who is also a star of American porn of some repute.
Ms. Leone topped Google India’s list of most-searched personalities in 2014, outstripping, as it were, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the film star Salman Khan.
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