The most googled person in India hails from Sarnia, Ontario. Sunny Leone, a Bollywood movie star, is the best-known Canadian in this nation of almost 1.3 billion. Leone has topped India's Google searches every year since 2012 - eclipsing even wildly popular Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
A daily fixture on the Bollywood pages of India's thousands of newspapers, she appears in ads for energy drinks, her own line of perfume and condoms - a wink at her early career starring in American porn films.
Leone exudes Canadian modesty when discussing her fame in the world's largest movie industry, which annually releases more than twice as many productions as Hollywood. "I just see myself as a girl that just wants to work and is happy doing that. I know it all goes hand in hand but for me I'm just following my dream of working in Bollywood," she said. Born Karenjit Kaur Vohra in Canada 34 years ago, she has happy memories of her childhood in southwestern Ontario before her family moved to the U.S. when she was a teenager.
"It was great growing up in Sarnia - great place for kids to grow up," said Leone, whose parents have since passed away. Asked if her candour about her career choices was liberating for women in patriarchal India, Leone said, "I don't know about empowering, but the only thing I say all the time is that I believe people should do what they want to do as long as they are not hurting someone, stealing or cheating someone."
"I don't regret my decisions in life and they were solely made by me. We should live life with integrity and honour our decisions," she said.