Karan Johar and Kartik Aaryan had a major falling out earlier this year, and their collaboration, Dostana 2, was put on hold despite shooting for more than half of the film. Soon after, Karan and his production company, Dharma Productions, hinted that the film will be completely remade, with another prominent star taking Kartik Aaryan’s place.
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“There was a strong buzz all across that Dostana 2 would be completely reshot with slight tweaking in the script. There was also a talk about Karan Johar approaching his close friend, Akshay Kumar to step into Kartik’s shoes. However now, there is a very strong buzz in the industry that Dostana 2 has been put on the backburner completely,” an industry insider told Bollywood Hungama.
According to the source, Karan has handed new projects to both Janhvi Kapoor and Lakshya and is collaborating with Akshay Kumar on a new film titled Selfie.
“He tried to revamp the film, but when things were taking longer than expected, he decided to put Dostana 2 on hold completely. Janhvi is now doing a film with Sharan Sharma, whereas Lakshya is doing a film with Shashank Khaitan. Akshay on the other hand teams up with Raj Mehta. And with this, Karan has put Dostana 2 silently under the shelf, hoping that it sees the light of day sometime in future,” the source added.
Talking about Kartik, the source said, “Well, Kartik had moved on long back and is charged up with back-to-back films like Shehzada, Bhool Bhulaiyaa 2, Freddy, and Captain India among others.”
