It’s goodbye to Sanjay Dutt for now, hello Sunny Deol in Raj Santoshi’s life.

Santoshi has put the costly historical on the Partition, Jis Lahore Nahin Dekhia Woh Jamia Hi Nahin with Sanjay Dutt in the lead, on indefinite hold. Instead Santoshi is going right ahead with his movie with Sunny Deol. Deol and Santoshi have been locked in earnest discussion over the past few weeks. They want to make sure the film will be the perfect comeback vehicle for the exiled star.

Says Santoshi, “I’d love to work with Sanjay Dutt. But the historical requires a whole lot more research and a huge budget which we can’t afford at this time. I’m at the moment making a movie with Sunny Deol written by me and Sridhar Ragahavan to be produced by me. In fact Sunny just left my office,” Santoshi told.

The separated hit jodi of Sunny Deol and Raj Kumar Santoshi is coming together again after 13 years. They last worked jointly in Ghatak.Verifying this development at a time when Sunny’s career has hit the lowest ebb Santoshi tells, “Yes, Sunny and I are working together after so many years. He still packs in the same punch.”

Ask Santoshi about the rough patch that Sunny’s career is going through, and the director jumps to his old favorite’s defense. “It’s regrettable that some of Sunny’s recent movies haven’t worked. That doesn’t mean Sunny didn’t work. He’s still our best action hero. And we’ll prove it. We gave a new meaning to action cinema in Ghayal. Again we hope to do the kind of action that audiences haven’t seen before. Sunny doesn’t need to flash six packs to be an action hero. One look from him is enough to defeat an army of enemies.”