She is supposedly the first Indian to feature in the hyped Playboy magazine. She has gone nude, and repeatedly so, in the last one month. She is seen comfortably standing with the media Mogul, Hugh Hefner. After having a blink-and-miss performance in about ten films and three studio albums to her credit, Sherlyn Chopra has finally arrived onto the tabloid scene of not just Indian, but world-wide media forums.
She was playing the image she had created for herself- raw and sultry, but well, she was playing herself in a YRF movie. Everyone thought that was her big break, and finally, she had arrived in Bollywood. In this movie also, more than the acting prowess of Sherlyn Chopra, we saw her playing a seductress with plunging necklines, tight skirts and bikinis. She has been non-chalant about her sexuality and its expression. She landed a side-role in an A-lister, Yash Raj Films production, Dil Bole Hadippa in 2009.
Another small stint in Bigg Boss 3 in 2009 and we all thought that Sherlyn Chopra is the new starlet to watch out for. But then she vanished for a couple of years. New ladies arrived on the scene. Stunners like Rakhi Sawant, Veena Malik and the more recent Poonam Pandey and Sunny Leone hogged the limelight with new-age erotic cinema and sizzling item numbers and reality shows. Sherlyn Chopra announces her photoshoot with the famed Playboy magazine. She tweets pictures with the Playboy monarch Hugh Hefner, posing cosily with him in his mansion.
The announcement was followed by racy, nude pictures, which were, in a bit, removed from the social networking site. Sherlyn Chopra has managed to hog the limelight on social media and traditional media for over three weeks now. It was official. Sherlyn Chopra was nude, and now she was famous. She did what her contemporaries were aspiring to do.
In a recent press conference, on being questioned about her Playboy shoot, she aid, 'there is a difference between a porn star and a Playboy girl. Everyone knows there is a difference between posing nude in front of a rolling camera and having sex in front of one. And well, I have only taken the first step till now.'(sic) She starts sniggering after the comment.
She continues, 'this is my life, my body and my work. This is not a local magazine, it is the world-famous Playboy.'(sic) I am still left with my question, is nudity the ticket to fame? Is the importance of an actor determined by how early the actor strips?