Filmmaker Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra and Producer Arjun N. Kapoor, the makers of “Fanney Khan” — have rubbished the rumours of Aishwarya Rai Bachchan being upset over the casting of R. Madhavan opposite her.
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Stars doing deep preparations:
- Mehra, in a statement, said: “It is quite unfortunate that such false and baseless stories are created to grab attention.
- There is zero truth to that, we are all a team and ‘Fanney Khan’ is a dear project to the whole team.”
- Kapoor of KriArj Entertainment added: “There are some stories doing the rounds about disagreement in casting for the film.
- We want to put the record straight and deny any such so called competition or discord amongst the makers.”
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- thorough professionals do not interfere in process of casting for other roles”.
- “It’s a great story and we are all very excited to showcase it to the world,” he said.
- Earlier, a news portal had reported that for the last couple of weeks the producers of the film have
- been locked in a bitter struggle to find the right hero opposite Aishwarya.
- It also said that there was a choice between Madhavan and RajKummar Rao
- With Aishwarya opting for Rao with Mehra insisting on Madhavan.
- “The discussions kept going on till the solution was finally cracked late on Wednesday afternoon – and the answer was Madhavan!”
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- professional so she will have to grin and bear it,” the portal had said.
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- Furthermore, it will be directed by Atul Manjrekar.