Sunny Leone to produce, star in drama-thriller

Having delved into reality TV, movies and item numbers, Bollywood actress Sunny Leone is all set to turn producer with her forthcoming film.

The `Mastizaade` actress will also star in the untitled project, which will be a drama-thriller. "We plan to shoot hopefully in July-August sometime this year. It will be in the drama-thriller space and we will test the waters that way. Hopefully it will turn out nice," Leone told PTI.

"I`ll be starring in it, because that will be the best idea. Rest of the details are still being worked out," she said. Leone, who had also shown keen interest in producing a superhero movie, said the project is in the pipeline.

"The superhero movie is in the pipeline. We are going to shoot this movie (drama-thriller) before we get into the superhero space," she said.

"I believe if we as a production house release something which is more -I don`t know want to say `normal`- but on a different level of story, then we can get a good idea if we can accomplish a superhero movie. Because that will take a good one-and-a-half years of planning," she said.


The 34-year-old actress, however, may not try her hands at script writing as of now and will focus solely on her home production."I don`t know if I am quite equipped for that, it takes a different kind of talent to be able to actually put together a script or a screenplay.

All I know is now we are working on our home project," she said. Leone will be next seen shaking a leg with superstar Shah Rukh Khan in the reprise version of the 1980 chartbuster `Laila O Laila` in the crime-thriller `Raees`.