Sunny Leone is grounded, professional: Rajniesh Duggall

Mumbai

Rajniesh first worked with the "Jism 2" star in last year's "Ek Paheeli Leela". The duo will team up again for their forthcoming romantic-drama "Beiimaan Love".

"Sunny Leone is very professional. It has been a great experience working with her. She is very well known, extremely famous, and yet very grounded. When on set, she is completely in the working-mode zone. We have worked previously so there was a good comfort zone between us," Rajinesh told PTI.

The actor says "Beiimaan Love" is very dark and romantic unlike the duo's last outing.

"It was a challenging role to play. It is a bold character and the film is about love, lust, revenge and drama. It is a dark romantic film. It won't be like 'Leela', which was spanning in different times. It is a very today's film."

Rajniesh, who made his debut with Vikram Bhatt's horror film "1920", will next be seen in "Direct Ishq". He plays the role of Vickky, a flamboyant man, in the Rajiv S Ruia directed film.

"I was initially offered the role of Kabir Bajpai, before Arjun Bijlani came on board to play the character. It was a soft, lover boy role which I didn't want to do anymore. I said I will play the role of Vickky Shukla, who is an out-an-out masala 'dabangi' character, very flamboyant and charming," he said.

The actor, who was also seen in bold romantic number "Mohabbat Barsa Dena Tu" from Bipasha Basu-starrer "Creature 3D", says he wants to shed his image of a soft lover boy.

"It is a conscious decision to break free of the lover boy tag. I was endorsing a suitings brand for a long time and then I left it because I wanted to come out of the clean, complete man image. Hence I did 'Ek Paheeli Leela', the song 'Mohabbat Barsa Dena' and now 'Direct Ishq'," he said.