Sunny Leone Stars With Ranbir Kapoor in Bollywood's Steamy 'Ae Dil Hai Mushkil'

Sunny Leone's transition from former XXX porn actress to Bollywood is one for the history books. The star has fought an uphill battle to get some notoriety in the community and was meet with harsh criticism at every turn, but now that the star has a slew of movies under her belt, she is getting even more high profile offers of movies to star in with A-list celebrities. The starlet broke onto the scene with Jism 2 and has been featured in flicks Ek Paheli Leela and Kuch Kuch Locha, but in addition to that, she has two seasons of the hit show MTV Splitsvilla under her belt. Now it looks like she is going to be starring alongside Ranbir Kapoor in the steamy movie Ae Dil Hai Mushkil.

According to India West, Sunny will be playing a neighbor to Ranbir's character and she sets out to seduce him. While Kapoor already has two women by his side in the flick, actresses Aishwarya Bachchan and Anushka Sharma, Leone's character will come in to stir things up on screen.

A photo posted by Ranbir Kapoor (@ranbirkapoor) on Sep 9, 2015 at 6:52am PDT

The site is reporting that the director, Karan Johar's, goal is to show off Kapoor's sexy side in the movie, and that he also wants to have a "mega-cult seduction number for Leone and Kapoor."

As we previously reported, Johar specifically cast Sunny because he knows what a big draw she is for audiences.

"He understands that Sunny is a huge draw at the box office," an insider explained. "He approached her for her oomph factor that are a big draw for audiences in the interiors. The actress is thrilled because this means that slowly and surely she is moving into a bigger league."