Sunny Singh dedicates his performance in Adipurush to his action-director father!

Sunny Singh has made an indelible mark in the romantic-comedy genre with his impressive performances in films like ‘Pyaar Ka Punchnama 2’, ‘Sonu Ke Titu Ki Sweety’, ‘Ujda Chaman’ and ‘Jai Mummy Di’. Now, the actor is all set to present a new facet of him as a mythological hero in the upcoming epic ‘Adipurush’.

Sunny will be seen playing the character of Shesh in the highly-anticipated film starring Prabhas, and Kriti Sanon. The film is a retelling the epic story of Ramayana directored by Om Raut and it is one of the most expensive films ever made in India. The trailer of the movie was released recently and was highly appreciated. Sunny, too, was lauded by the media, industry and critics alike for his brilliant performance in the trailer.

During Adipurush’s trailer launch, Sunny revealed the reason why this film is very important to him. The actor shared, “There is a lot of excitement and nervousness. The journey has been very good. Every day on the set was surreal and we used to get goosebumps. We are quite emotionally connected with this film.” The actor also thanked the director Om Raut for giving him this opportunity.

Sunny added that Adipurush is also very personal to him as it gives him a chance to dabble in the action genre. And what makes it so important is that his father is actually an action director himself. “It’s my first film where I got to do a lot of action sequences and I dedicate it to my father who has worked for 40 years as an action director,” he informed.

The actor’s father Jai Singh Nijjar is a reputed action director who has worked on films like Shivaay, Golmaal 3, Singham, Chennai Express, Bol Bachchan, etc.

Sunny also got quite overwhelmed as he remembered his mother. He shared, “It’s also an emotional experience for me as I lost my mother 6-7 months back. She used to tell me, ‘Jab tu shoot ke liye jaayega, toh tu apna 200% dega’. That used to motivate me a lot.”

As for the actor, apart from Adipurush, Sunny has an impressive line up of projects which include Luv Ranjan’s ‘Wild Wild Punjab’, Hardik Gajjar’s ‘Amar Prem’, Nachiket Samant’s ‘Single Salma’, Deepak Mukut’s ‘The Virgin Tree’ and Ishrat Khan’s ‘Luv Ki Arranged Marriage’. The actor is going to be quite busy on screens for a while and there couldn’t have been a more auspicious start to it than an epic like ‘Adipurush’