Mumbai: Former porn films actress turned Bollywood star Sunny Leone after establishing her foots in Indian film industry has rope herself for debut in Tollywood by grabbing role of Warrior Queen.
The sex serien has quickly made a name for herself in Bollywood and has now set her eyes on the Tamil film industry. While she has had a small cameo in a Tamil film in the past, this new film Veeramdevi shall be her first foray as a Tamil heroine in a leading role.
The film has only gone on floors this month and is being directed by Tamil film director Vadivudaiyan.
Leone on her part stated that she was rather excited to do the film as it would learn experience for her and help her discover a new culture. The film is a historical drama where Sunny Leone would be cast as a warrior princess which is a far cry from the roles that she has conventionally potrayed in Bollywood.
The actress highlighted that she would be taking up Tamil lessons to prepare for what appears to be her most challenging role on screen.
The actress has been signed up for a movie to be directed by V.C. Vadivudaiyan. Ponse Stephen is producing the film. The movie will be “based on the culture of south India”, read a statement.
Sunny Leone becomes Warrior Queen as have special love for something:
For this project, she is all geared up to learn sword fighting, horse riding and other stunt-related arts. For this purpose, a special trainer from Andhra Pradesh will fly to Mumbai and teach Sunny all these arts.
Sunny has given a call sheet of 150 days, and around 70 minutes of the movie is said to be computer generated imagery-driven. It will be released in Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam and Hindi.
“After this movie, I am sure my image will change completely. I have always liked doing action sequences. I was waiting for a script like this only for years. I started preparing for this movie from the minute director V.C. Vadivudayan narrated me the script.
“I have a special love towards south India, so I am very happy to do a straight Telugu movie. I have a lot of my fans in south India, especially Andra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu and Kerala.”
The shooting of the movie started this month. Sexy Leone is excited about featuring in action sequences in a period war film in Telugu.
