Ship-dancer Farah, small town Devi, architect Piku, wheelchair-bound Laila – they are dusting off the cobwebs of age-old prejudice by choosing how to live and whom to love - something the ‘good girl’ never could risk getting away with! About time, says Nichola Pais.
As Lily and Laila, twin operators of a sex deaddiction centre, Sunny Leone is squeezed into the tiniest clothes and sweetly mouths the most risqué of dialogues. Playing with her pet cat ‘pusski’ or dusting round objects with a cloth and being tagged a ‘balls-cleaner’, Sunny performs every cringe-worthy act onscreen with composure. Offscreen she holds on to that poise, maintaining, “I feel whatever we shot for Mastizaade is not wrong and I am not worried about people’s reaction towards me.” Despite the pathetic reviews – one reviewer called it loaded with ‘masti so sasti, that you are left cringing rather than cracking up’ – audience reaction was warm. The film roped in R28.74 crore in its first week. Of course the real victory for Ms Leone had already come before the film hit the screens, when an interview in which she gracefully handled a flurry of misogynistic questions mainly about her adult film past, went viral. An outpouring of support flowed in from every quarter and even Aamir Khan tweeted back to say “Sunny, I will b happy 2 work wid u. I have absolutely no problems wid ur past, as the interviewer puts it.Stay blessed. Love .a. (sic)” Don’t forget, even the innuendo-laded proceedings in the film see the two lust-crazed womanisers (Tusshar and Vir Das) actually fall in love with Laila and Lily and go through a number of hurdles to win their respective love!
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