I got trapped in the whole ‘action star’ image: Sunny

“I don’t always have to be someone banging people all the time onscreen. People are going to see a different me which has been so much a part of me but was not explored earlier,” Sunny said in an interview.

The star,son of Bollywood veteran Dharmendra,feels that he got trapped in the whole ‘action star’ image as the producers were unwilling to cast him in different roles. He,however,is confident that it is going to change with the kind of films he is doing.

“I had an image and producers were not willing to try different things. I feel ‘Right Yaaa Wrong’ has helped me a lot to break from that image. It is right time to do the kind of the cinema that I believe in without worrying much about my image,” says Sunny.

His last films ‘Fox’,’Kaafila’ and ‘Teesri Aankh’ did not do well at the box office. In ‘Heroes’ and ‘Fool N Final’ he did not have much to do while ‘Apne’,his last success,had released three years back.

Sunny,who is also a producer,took a break from the movie business because of his poor health.

“For a long time I was not keeping well because of my back and then you have to keep financial aspects in mind.

There were not very great projects. The time was not right,” he says.

Sunny,53,is looking forward to his next film ‘Yamala,Pagla Deewana’,which will see the Deol family reunite onscreen once again.

“It is a great subject and we have been working on it for quite sometime. We have got a great title for it,which is very apt. It is taken from my father’s film ‘Pratigya’. You are going to see the song in this film too,” he says.

Unlike ‘Apne’,which was high on emotion,this film is,as Sunny sums it up,’a roller-coster ride of fun’.

“It is an out and out laughter not like ‘Apne’,which was emotional and talked about family values. When we decided to team up together we were very sure that it should not resemble our last film,” he says.

The actor wants to release the film by Christmas or Diwali. The shooting of the film will finish by May-June.

Sunny,who had tried his hands in direction with 1999 film ‘Dillagi’,will once again be getting behind the camera for big-budget film ‘The Man’ but the actor is not willing to divulge much on the project.

“When I started the project everything was looking big but suddenly things went bad. It troubled me a lot. I am trying to work around this time because it is a big budget film and getting the finances and getting things done the right way is very important. Stakes have been pretty high,” he says about the recession.

The actor is known to be shy in real life but with promotions becoming important,Sunny feels he can’t keep away.

“My nature has been like that. And I have had success without me going out of my way. But the strategy has changed over the period. One has to be a little louder than earlier. But I still feel that it is the producer who markets the film. An actor can only talk,” he says.