11 August,2026 07:23 AM IST | Mumbai | Upala KBR
Sunny Leone
Imagine Sunny Leone haunting you as a ghost. Does the idea scare you? Well, that's what writer and director TLV Prasad is going for with his horror comedy, Chudail, which sees Leone in the titular role. The actor recently wrapped up filming in Uttar Pradesh.
So, what's Chudail all about? Also starring Rahul Dev and Mandana Karimi, the horror comedy is along the lines of the blockbuster Stree, which subverted the idea of evil female spirits. It sees Leone and Karimi in conflict with each other, while Dev portrays a priest who drives the spirit away.
A source shared, "Set in North India, Chudail sees Sunny as a spirit haunting the streets of Bulandshahr and luring men. But her character isn't an all-black witch. As the story progresses, it's revealed that she faced grave injustice in her lifetime and that sparked her need for vengeance in the afterlife. Extensive VFX has been used in the movie to showcase Sunny's transformation from a beautiful woman to a spirit with glowing eyes and reversed feet."
For Mahendra Dhariwal, Chudail is a significant project as it marks his 50th movie as a producer. He is planning its release on a grand scale, as he told mid-day, "It's designed as a pan-India movie, shot in Hindi and dubbed in other languages [Malayalam, Tamil, and Telugu]. We shot the film in a haveli in Bulandshahr in Uttar Pradesh. Sunny's Ragini MMS 2 [2014], where she played a possessed woman, was a big hit, and now she is returning as a chudail in the horror comedy. It's also a musical. We are planning a theatrical release in September-end."
Early on in her career, Sunny Leone took a stab at the horror genre with âRagini MMS 2' (2014)
She previously attempted the genre of horror comedy with the 2022 Tamil movie, âOh My Ghost'
