Sunny Leone debut film had Malayali hero like Aishwarya Rai and Priyanka Chopra grandmom is Keralite Christian

 Priyanka Chopra's grand mother is a Malayali Christian. Aishwarya Rai's first hero was Mohanlal . Sunny Leone's first hero in debut film  was Nishant Sagar, a Malayali actor.. Samantha first film was directed by Gautham Vasudev Menon and she played a Malayali in the film.

Priyanka Chopra's maternal grandmother is Mary John from `Kavalappara' family belonging to Syrian Jacobite Church in Kumarakom ,  famous for the backwaters and near Kottayam located in Central Kerala. She married a Bihar politician Dr M K Akhouri and changed her name to Madhu Jyotsna Akhouri. Her daughter is Dr Madhu Chopra. Priyanka's grandmother said in an interview that her relatives who visited her used to speak in Malayalam to Priyanka and she had picked up a few words. Priyanka and her brother Siddharth along with her mother were at the funeral held in a church in Poonkunam at  Kottayam. It was her grandmother's last wish to be cremated at the church ground of her birth place.

Aishwarya Rai\s first film she signed was Mani Rathnam!s Iruvar and the hero was Mohanlal, Later she signed a Hindi film with  Bobby Deol as hero. Both the films were box office failures. Actress Rohini dubbed for Aishwarya Rai in Iruvar. She played the dual role of  Pushpavalli and Kalpana ( Jayalalithaa).

The debut  feature film that Sunny Leone acted was a Indo American film  Pirates Blood . That film was directed by Mark Rating from hollywood, and Gulab Prem was its producer. Cinematography was done by Ramachandra Babu. That film was shot mainly in America and India. Nishanth Sagar who debuted in a film Jokker with Deliep was the hero. After this Hollywood film, Sunny signed the Hindi film Jism 2. The film was shot in 2006- 2007 and post production was done in Chennai. Pattanam Rasheed was the makeup man. The film is gearing for a theater release in India. Sunny is acting in a Malayalam film Shero directed by Kuttanadan Marappa fame director Sreejith Vijayan.

Samantha made her debut as leading lady in a Telugu film Ye Maaye Cheesave directed by Gautham Vasudev Menon. It was a remake of his hit Tamil film Vinnai thandi Varuvaaya and Samantha played Jessie a Malayali Christian girl. She won the Andhra Nandi award for her debut film.

Katrina Kaif had played the lead opposite Mammooty in Balram v/s Tharadas,a Malayalam film directed by I V Sasi.

Sunny Leone wraps up Malayalam film

 The director of Sunny Leone’s multi-lingual Shero - Sreejith Vijayan - in a recent interview couldn’t stop raving about her hard work in the film. It’s thus no surprise that when the actress recently wrapped the film, it was an emotional moment for the whole unit. The film is simultaneously being made in Tamil, Malayalam, Hindi, Kannada, and Telugu recently finished its principal shooting. Sunny took to social media to announce the film’s wrap with a clapboard, posing with Sreejith.  

The film is a psychological thriller that has Sunny play the character of Sarah Mike, US-born woman with roots in India. The film traces the story of a chance holiday and the chance happenings on it forms the narrative. It’s a psychological thriller which Sunny shoulders single handedly with her performance. Action is another crucial element of the film and for it, the actress trained and prepped extensively, doing all the stunts by herself.

Shot in Munnar and other parts of Kerala, Sunny believes it’s a defining part for her. As she wrapped the film, she tells us, “There are movies that  challenge you and make you want to push yourself harder. Shero is just that film for me. I wanted to nail it to the tee. From the performance, to the action, to learning the language, it was a film that I was completely consumed by. We shot in such picturesque locales of Kerala and it is by far one of the most interesting films I have ever done in my life.”