Sunny Leone trains in Gun fu for Vikram Bhatt's Anamika

Sunny Leone picks up hybrid martial arts for her assassin act in Vikram Bhatt’s web series Anamika

We have all witnessed Keanu Reeves spraying bullets in slow motion as he takes down an army of enemies in the noir thriller franchise, John Wick. Come July, we may see Sunny Leone indulging in similar gunplay. Vikram Bhatt’s web series, Anamika, sees her play a highly skilled trained assassin who has lost her memory. Considering the show relies heavily on action, the actor trained in Gun fu for 10 days before the project rolled in November.

“It’s an intense action thriller that sees Sonnalli [Seygall, co-star] being sent on a mission to kill Sunny. It is a deadly hunting game between the two trained assassins. Sunny learned Gun fu for her part; it took 10 days to get the preliminary action in place,” says Bhatt, who is currently filming the MX Player project.

In an industry that relies on the traditional kicks, punches and blowing up of cars to build up the momentum in an action sequence, the director is excited to introduce Gun fu — a discipline that combines the stylish martial art Kung fu, complete with hand-to-hand combat and traditional hand-held weapons, with guns. Any martial arts movie-aficionado will tell you that the action style was introduced by filmmaker John Woo in A Better Tomorrow (1986). It has since gained prominence in Hollywood with The Matrix (1999), The Raid (2011) and John Wick (2014).

The director promises hyper-stylised combat techniques in his action thriller. “The training in Gun fu requires stretching and the ability to fall and kick, but it doesn’t require any cable work. The best thing about the web series is that the women are performing the stunts themselves,” explains Bhatt. In his first collaboration with Leone, he is impressed by how smoothly she has taken to action. “She is hard-working, sincere and has an incredible need to better herself in everything 
she does.”

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