Karenjit Kaur – The Untold Story of Sunny Leone
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| Genre | Biography |
| Based on | The Life story of- Sunny Leone |
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| Directed by | Aditya Datt |
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| Theme music composer | Rachita Arora |
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| Country of origin | India |
| No. of seasons | 3 |
| No. of episodes | 20[2] (list of episodes) |
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| Running time | approx. 20 - 25 mins[3] |
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| Distributor | Zee5 |
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| Original release | July 16, 2018 – May 21, 2019 |
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Karenjit Kaur – The Untold Story of Sunny Leone is a ZEE5 Original web series. The series captures the journey of former pornstar-turned-actor Sunny Leone, 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.[4][5]
Description[]
The biopic stars Sunny Leone, Raj Arjun, 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.[6]
The show was primarily shot in Cape Town and Mumbai. The shoot was over by May 2018.
Cast[]
- Sunny Leone as Karenjit Kaur Vohra/Karenjit Kaur Weber/Karen Malhotra/Sunny Leone (Herself)
- Rysa Saujani as Young Karenjit[7]
- Bijay J. Anand as Jaspal Singh Vohra
- Grusha Kapoor as Balwant Kaur Vohra
- Raj Arjun as Anupam Chaubey, a news anchor
- Karamvir Lamba as Sundeep[8]
- 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 | Episodes | Originally released | |||
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| 1 | 10 | July 16, 2018 | |||
| 2 | 6 | September 18, 2018 | |||
| 3 | 4 | April 5, 2019 | |||
Season 1[]
| No. overall | No. in season | Title [9] | Directed by | Written by | Original release date |
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| 1 | 1 | "Talking Tough" | Aditya Datt | Karan Shrikant Sharma | July 16, 2018 |
| 2 | 2 | "City of No Angels" | Aditya Datt | Karan Shrikant Sharma | July 16, 2018 |
| 3 | 3 | "Virgin Mary" | Aditya Datt | Karan Shrikant Sharma | July 16, 2018 |
| 4 | 4 | "Taking the Plunge" | Aditya Datt | Karan Shrikant Sharma | July 16, 2018 |
| 5 | 5 | "Birth of Sunny Leone" | Aditya Datt | Karan Shrikant Sharma | July 16, 2018 |
| 6 | 6 | "The Devil Wears Nothing" | Aditya Datt | Karan Shrikant Sharma | July 16, 2018 |
| 7 | 7 | "As Bad As It Gets" | Aditya Datt | Karan Shrikant Sharma | July 16, 2018 |
| 8 | 8 | "Love at First Sight" | Aditya Datt | Karan Shrikant Sharma | July 16, 2018 |
| 9 | 9 | "The Black Sheep" | Aditya Datt | Karan Shrikant Sharma | July 16, 2018 |
| 10 | 10 | "A New Chapter Begins" | Aditya Datt | Karan Shrikant Sharma | July 16, 2018 |
Season 2[]
| No. overall | No. in season | Title [9] | Directed by | Written by | Original release date |
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| 11 | 1 | "Beat around the Bush" | Aditya Datt | Karan Shrikant Sharma | September 18, 2018 |
| 12 | 2 | "Guilty of Doing It our way" | Aditya Datt | Karan Shrikant Sharma | September 18, 2018 |
| 13 | 3 | "Is It Happily Ever After?" | Aditya Datt | Karan Shrikant Sharma | September 18, 2018 |
| 14 | 4 | "The Princess and The Frogs" | Aditya Datt | Karan Shrikant Sharma | September 18, 2018 |
| 15 | 5 | "The Last Wish!" | Aditya Datt | Karan Shrikant Sharma | September 18, 2018 |
| 16 | 6 | "Time to Say Goodbye" | Aditya Datt | Karan Shrikant Sharma | September 18, 2018 |
Season 3[]
| No. overall | No. in season | Title [9] | Directed by | Written by | Original release date |
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| 17 | 1 | "Born to be a Chef!" | Aditya Datt | Karan Shrikant Sharma | April 5, 2019 |
| 18 | 2 | "Princess Finds Her Prince" | Aditya Datt | Karan Shrikant Sharma | April 5, 2019 |
| 19 | 3 | "It’s Time to Grow Big!" | Aditya Datt | Karan Shrikant Sharma | April 5, 2019 |
| 20 | 4 | "Flight to India…" | Aditya Datt | Karan Shrikant Sharma | April 5, 2019 |
Reception[]
First post made a statement that the screenplay of the series is cleverly written and portrayed karenjit's life perfectly.[10] 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[11] 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 says that the webseries was surprisingly a smooth ride.[12] 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[13] 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[]
- ^ "Karenjit Kaur Review: Precise! Satisfactory!". justformoviefreaks.in. Retrieved 2018-09-11.
- ^ "Karenjit Kaur: The Untold Story Of Sunny Leone second season announced; to premiere on 18 September- Entertainment News, Firstpost". Firstpost. 21 August 2018.
- ^ "Karenjit Kaur:The Untold Story of Sunny Leone Episode 1 review:It takes nerves of steel to tell this bold tale". Retrieved 2018-09-21.
- ^ "Sunny Leone's biopic to premiere on ZEE5 from July 16—Watch teaser". Zee News. Retrieved 2018-07-02.
- ^ "Sunny Leone's ZEE5 Biopic Will Conclude With Season 3 on April 5". NDTV Gadgets 360. Retrieved 2020-02-13.
- ^ "Karenjit Kaur: The Untold Story of Sunny Leone season 2 trailer charts actor's trying journey- Entertainment News, Firstpost". Firstpost. 2018-08-28. Retrieved 2020-02-13.
- ^ "Rysa Saujani on playing younger Sunny Leone: The role was emotionally very challenging". The Indian Express. 2018-06-01. Retrieved 2018-09-11.
- ^ "Sunny Leone introduces Karamvir Lamba who essays her reel life brother in Karenjit Kaur - Rediff Realtime News". realtime.rediff.com. Retrieved 2018-09-11.
- ^ a b c "List of episodes". www.zee5.com. Retrieved 2018-09-21.
- ^ "First Post Review".
- ^ "Hindustan Times Review".
- ^ "The Indian Express Review".
- ^ "The Quint Review".
External links[]
- Hindi-language web series
- Indian drama web series
- 2018 web series debuts
- ZEE5 original programming
- Works about pornography