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Sunny leone

can perform in

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SayS Kannada

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Sunny Leone wiLL perform on november 3 at the white orchid hoteL in
manyata tech park on outer ring road, bengaLuru.

Bollywood actor Sunny Leone is all set to give her first live
performance at a concert in Bengaluru later this year. And, pro-
Kannada activists seem to be already up in arms against her event.
A day after newspapers in the city reported the upcoming event,

Kannada activists announced that they will hold a massive protest
across the state demanding a total ban on the Bollywood star.
However, now they have softened their stance, allowing Sunny to
perform in the city but with one condition.

“We are not opposed to Sunny Leone performing in the city. She
is free to come to the city and perform but we are insisting that in
November, Kannada should be promoted,” Praveen Shetty, the
chief of Karnataka Rakshana Vedike, told The News.

Last year, pro-Kannada and other fringe groups in Karnataka
opposed Sunny’s New Year night performance in Bengaluru
accusing her of being a potential threat to Kannada culture. The
controversy also found validation from the government. Then

Karnataka Home Minister Ramalinga Reddy even directed the
police department to stop the actor from giving the performance.
“They have taken permission to conduct a programme. Let them
hold cultural activities like music, or Bharatanatyam not this

(Sunny’s performance),” Ramalinga Reddy had said.
Eventually, the controversy forced Sunny to back off, leading to
the cancellation of the entire show.
Almost a year later, the same organizers have scheduled Sunny
Leone’s performance in Bengaluru at the same venue. The
event will take place on November 3 at the White Orchid hotel
in Manyata Tech Park on Outer Ring Road. The organizers have
revealed that the concert will be mainly led by musician Raghu
Dixit’s performance and Sunny will give three dance performances,
including one on a Kannada song.

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