Karenjit Kaur – The Untold Story of Sunny Leone

Karenjit Kaur – the untold story of Sunny Leone
Genre Biography
Screenplay by
  • Karan Shrikant Sharma (season 1 & 2)
  • Niranjan Kaushik (season 1)[1]
Directed by Aditya Datt
Starring
Theme music composer Rachita Arora
Composer(s)
  • Anurag Shanker (season 1)
  • Tallz (season 2)
No. of seasons 2
No. of episodes 16 (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producer(s)
  • Sanjay Mehta(season 1)
  • Sudhir Narayan Sherigar (season 2)
  • Shahnawaz Iqbal Dabhoiwala (season 2)
Producer(s)
  • Kishor Arora
  • Akash Chawla
  • Shareen Mantri Kedia
  • Arunava Sengupta
Cinematography
  • Keiko Nakahara (season 1)
  • Priya Seth (season 2)
Editor(s)
  • Jitendra Prakash Dongare (season 1)
  • Sandeep Kurup (season 2)
Running time approx. 20 minutes[2]
Production company(s)
  • Namah Pictures
  • Fresh Lime Films
Distributor Zee5
Release
Original release July 16 (2018-07-16) – September 18, 2018 (2018-09-18)

Karenjit Kaur – the untold story of Sunny Leone is a ZEE5 original. The series captures the journey of former pornstar-turned-actor Sunny Leone, born as Karenjit Kaur 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 ten-episode biopic premiered on the platform on 16 July 2018 on ZEE5 in multiple languages, including Bengali, Tamil, Telugu and Marathi.[3]

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 Dutt 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 mainstream actress. Sunny Leone has been a controversial figure for Indian masses. The actress has a massive fan-following across the world. But she became a trend-setter of sorts by effortlessly making her way from computer screens to dinner-table conversations in many a household, even in traditional and small-town India.

Before embarking on the production, ZEE5 conducted extensive research with Dragonfly & Ormax Media and discovered that the story of Sunny Leone generated curiosity across the country with a clear inclination to understand it.

The show was primarily shot in Cape Town and Mumbai. The shoot was over by May 2018.

Cast

  • Sunny Leone as Karenjit Kaur
    • Rysa Saujani as Young Karenjit[4]
  • 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[5]
    • Vansh Pradhan as Young Sundeep
  • Marc Buckner as Daniel
  • Johan Badh as Nate
  • Joanna Robaczewska as Tanya

Episodes

Series overview

SeasonEpisodesOriginally released
110July 16, 2018 (2018-07-16)
26September 18, 2018 (2018-09-18)

Season 1

No.
overall		No. in
season		Title [6]Original release date
11"Talking Tough"July 16, 2018 (2018-07-16)
22"City of No Angels"July 16, 2018 (2018-07-16)
33"Virgin Mary"July 16, 2018 (2018-07-16)
44"Taking the Plunge"July 16, 2018 (2018-07-16)
55"Birth of Sunny Leone"July 16, 2018 (2018-07-16)
66"The Devil Wears Nothing"July 16, 2018 (2018-07-16)
77"As Bad As It Gets"July 16, 2018 (2018-07-16)
88"Love at First Sight"July 16, 2018 (2018-07-16)
99"The Black Sheep"July 16, 2018 (2018-07-16)
1010"A New Chapter Begins"July 16, 2018 (2018-07-16)

Season 2

No.
overall		No. in
season		Title [6]Original release date
111"Beat around the Bush"September 18, 2018 (2018-09-18)
122"Guilty of Doing It our way"September 18, 2018 (2018-09-18)
133"Is It Happily Ever After?"September 18, 2018 (2018-09-18)
144"The Princess and The Frogs"September 18, 2018 (2018-09-18)
155"The Last Wish!"September 18, 2018 (2018-09-18)
166"Time to Say Goodbye"September 18, 2018 (2018-09-18)

References

  1. ↑ "Karenjit Kaur Review: Precise! Satisfactory!". justformoviefreaks.in. Retrieved 2018-09-11.
  2. ↑ "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.
  3. ↑ "Sunny Leone's biopic to premiere on ZEE5 from July 16—Watch teaser". zeenews.india.com. Retrieved 2018-07-02.
  4. ↑ "Rysa Saujani on playing younger Sunny Leone: The role was emotionally very challenging". The Indian Express. 2018-06-01. Retrieved 2018-09-11.
  5. ↑ "Sunny Leone introduces Karamvir Lamba who essays her reel life brother in Karenjit Kaur - Rediff Realtime News". realtime.rediff.com. Retrieved 2018-09-11.
  6. 1 2 "List of episodes". www.zee5.com. Retrieved 2018-09-21.
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