Bollywood actor Kartik Aryan will next be seen in Shehzada, the Hindi remake of Allu Arjun-starrer Ala Vaikunthapurramuloo. Kartik Aryan  threatened to ‘walk out’ of the film if the dubbed Hindi version of the original film is released in theatres, claimed producer Manish Shah, who called the actor “extremely unprofessional”.

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Manish shared that he has the rights to Ala Vaikunthapurramuloo’s dubbed version in Hindi but the release of the movie was cancelled a few days ago. “The makers of Shehzda were not keen to release the Hindi version in cinemas. Also, Kartik Aaryan said if the movie was released in theatres, he would walk out of the film, which would have caused Shehzada producers a loss of Rs 40 crore. It was extremely unprofessional of him,” Manish said in an interview. He further said, “I have known the Shehzada producers for 10 years. I cannot have people who are close to me losing Rs 40 crores, so I dropped it. By doing this, I ended up losing Rs 20 crores. I spent Rs 2 crores only on dubbing. I wanted this film to be bigger than Pushpa: The Rise. If I do not release the film I lose money, so now I am releasing it on my channel. I would not have done anything for Kartik Aaryan, I only did this because of Allu Arvind. Why would I do this for a Bollywood hero? I don’t know him.”

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In April 2021, Karan Johar’s Dharma Productions had released a statement through its social media handles that they would be recasting the upcoming much-anticipated movie Dostana 2 despite filming some scenes. The Collin D’Cunha directorial already starred Kartik Aryan, Janhvi Kapoor, and Lakshya Lalwani.

Several rumours swirled over  Kartik’s exit, one being that he didn’t want to do the film because he had a big fallout with actress Janhvi Kapoor.