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| Sunny Leone took the questions sportingly, but her Bollywood colleagues came to her defence (Tweets Video below) |
January 19, 2016, NewsCrunch
CNN IBN anchor Bhupendra Chaubey interviewed Bollywood actor Sunny Leone – who is promoting her movie Mastizaade– recently.
The interview was slotted for Hot Seat, a programme in which CNN IBN asks tough questions to celebrities.
Even then, the Bhupendra Chaubey’s journalistic masterpiece stood out or its inelegance. The senior journalist threw an incessant list of questions that have been described as rude, disgusting and insulting to Sunny Leone, all focusing on her past as a porn star.
He asked her if married women saw her as a threat; would Aamir Khan like to work with her; how she felt when an MP held her responsible for corrupting Indian morality.
"Since you have come to Indian cinema, the number of people watching porn has increased proportionately... Can you respond to that," he asked.
Sunny Leone, who has a reputation for never losing her cool, took the questions sportingly and gave the best answers she could.
But the interview angered many of her Bollywood colleagues. They came to her defence and said Chaubey had no business embarrassing her in the way he did and slammed the interview as sexist and insensitive.
But the interview angered many of her Bollywood colleagues. They came to her defence and said Chaubey had no business embarrassing her in the way he did and slammed the interview as sexist and insensitive.
Angry tweets- Bollywood upset after Bhupendra Chaubey interviews Sunny Leone for CBNN IBN’s Hot Seat
This downright distasteful interview shows d journalists intellect & lack of basic human respect & nothing else.kudos @SunnyLeone— Anushka Sharma (@AnushkaSharma) January 19, 2016Very unfair& rude interview with Sunny Leone on CNN IBN.She is taking it on her chin sportingly,obviously in the interest of her coming film— rishi kapoor (@chintskap) January 17, 2016That was literally NOT an interview.. Just hyper opinionated statements with a question mark at the end!!! No Grace? Chivalry? Ridiculous!— Alia Bhatt (@aliaa08) January 19, 2016He asks the same question for 20minutes. Because she doesn't satisfy him with the response he's looking for.#Respecthttps://t.co/RkG4B0C5d2— Dia Mirza (@deespeak) January 19, 2016How beautifully u held your own in that stupid interview @SunnyLeone .Some1 should have taught him how to respect a woman when he was a kid.— Sushant S Rajput (@itsSSR) January 19, 2016@gauravkapur He lookd lik any other Uncle who stares at women on streets and coms bck home saying women r not dressd appropriately dese days— deepak chaudhary (@imperialboy) January 19, 2016More power to you @SunnyLeone - https://t.co/b4e9VMUTuB— Riteish Deshmukh (@Riteishd) January 19, 2016Well done @SunnyLeone keeping it together in the face of opinionated misguided questions👍 #mortifyingjournalismhttps://t.co/DwsdAFtVxT— shruti haasan (@shrutihaasan) January 19, 2016— Varun Dhawan (@Varun_dvn) January 19, 2016Yes and such stupid questions!He is so googly eyed & patronising while @SunnyLeone holds her own so beautifully👍🏼 https://t.co/KKPlaUB8sw— Mini Mathur (@minimathur) January 19, 2016A rockstar being interviewed by a misogynistic idiot. You owned this one @SunnyLeone with your grace & poise. Bravo! https://t.co/LeCVt9bxmw— Shruti Seth (@SethShruti) January 18, 2016