Will play the role of a princess.
By Tathagata Mitra
BANGALORE: Bollywood’s Baby Doll, Sunny Leone, has recently been asked to shed five kilos for her next film.
The former porn star had had already lost of a lot of weight when she shifted careers to Bollywood. Now the makers of her next film Leela, have asked her to slim down more. Leela will be directed by Bobby, brother of Bollywood choreographer Ahmed Khan, who will be making his directorial debut with this venture.
Sunny will reportedly play a princess in Leela, and most probably as the eponymous character. About her training for the role, a source revealed, according to The Times of India, “A trainer has already been assigned to Sunny and she has started working on a new regime. She is been doing a lot of stretching exercises as the role requires her to be extremely agile.”
Given that Leela is a dance musical, Sunny had to go through some training for her role. Says Ahmed Khan, who is choreographing his brother’s film, “We will go on the floors on July 10. Besides the weight, a lot of which she has already lost, we are also training Sunny in basic folk and traditional Bollywood dance – a craft which she hasn’t practiced before.”
Apart from Leela, Sunny is signed for a few more films. There is Patel Rap, in which she will star alongside Ram Kapoor, Telugu film Current Theega, Tina and Lolo, and Mastizaade in which Sunny plays Laila Lele. Her recent stint in the Tamil film Vadacurry has earned her a lot of praise from the people in the industry. After getting a few offers, she has agreed to a few projects, among them Oru Oorla Rendu Raja, where she will play herself.
About the male lead in Leela, Ahmed spoke out, “We are in talks with a few actors. We should finalise a guy within a week’s time. Since the role is quite pivotal to the film’s script, so we are ensuring we find the right match opposite Sunny.”
Leela will release in the summer of 2015.