I don't respect Sunny Leone's profession: Prasoon Joshi

Mumbai: Former actor and po*n star Sunny Leone has emerged as the toast of Bollywood in the last week after the industry rallied around her after a rather unseemly drubbing from a journalist who kept harping on her po*n past during a television interview.

Stars have pledged their support to Sunny, with Aamir Khan saying he would be proud to work with her in a film.

At an even in Mumbai yesterday, to celebrate 10 year's of Rakeysh Om Prakash Mehra's iconic film 'Rang De Basanti', lyricist and screenwriter Prasoon Joshi struck a different note. 

When a journalist asked Aamir Khan about his comment on wanting to work with Sunny Leone, Prasoon Joshi who was present at the event said,
"It's not necessary that every profession is respectable, and if it's not, it should be criticised too. A profession should in someway or the other contribute in a good way towards society. I don't respect Sunny Leone's profession at all and I wouldn't want the youth to get inspired by that profession."

"But to question her on her profession... I don't think that should be done either. If the person is a drug dealer, that's the person's personal choice. Will I disrespect the person? No! Will I insult the person publicly? No! That probably my culture doesn't allow. But at the same time, I wouldn't encourage the profession either. Certain professions don't play a constructive role in bringing up a great society, we need to criticise them as well. I think that's a free society, people have choices to make. But if the choices are not great, then we need to criticise."