Kartik Aaryan after his unfortunate fallout with Karan Johar over Dostana 2. In his new interview, Shehzada producer Manish Shah has revealed that Kartik had threatened to walk out of his film if the Hindi dubbed version of Allu Arjun’s Ala Vaikunthapurramuloo was released in theatres. For the uninitiated, Shehzada is the Hindi remake of the original film Ala Vaikunthapurramuloo.
“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 ₹40 crores. It was extremely unprofessional of him,” Manish Shah said.
He continues, “I have known Shehzada producers for 10 years. I cannot have people who are close to me losing ₹40 crores, so I dropped it. By doing this, I ended up losing ₹20 crores. I spent ₹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.”
