Suniel Shetty has decided to cut down on his acting assignments and go on a one-year sabbatical. The actor's announcement comes in the wake of his decision to say no to Rituparno Ghosh's "Rahgeer".

"I wouldn't like to make a comment on 'Rahgeer'. The producers have already made a statement to that effect, but, yes, I have decided to go slow on acting. For the next one year, I intend to take my own time reading scripts. It is something that I have been planning for a long time," Suneil told.

Interestingly, only a month ago he had expressed a keen desire to be part of Rituparno's film, saying it would give him scope to reinvent himself as an actor. One of the stories doing the rounds is he wasn't quite convinced about his role in the film after he read the script.

Currently Suneil has a line-up of four promising films - Subhash Ghai's "Apna Sapna Money Money", Dharmesh Darshan's "Aap Ki Khatir", J.P. Dutta's "Umrao Jaan" and Mani Shankar's "Mukhbir".

"Apart from these films, I feel it is time to sit down and seriously rediscover myself as an actor. That's why the break," he says.