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Jul 12, 2020, 05:00 AM IST

Amit Karna

Apart from the casting controversy of Dear Zindagi, another sensational news related to Alia Bhatt is coming out. That is, he has distanced himself from Arunima Sinha’s biopic. Arunima Sinha is the climber who conquered Everest despite having one leg.

Dainik Bhaskar first broke the news on February 17 last year that Alia Bhatt is doing a biopic on Arunima Sinha. After this, in a conversation with Dainik Bhaskar on 6 April, Alia Bhatt himself also confirmed that she has met Neeraj Ghewan, very excited to play him. It is going to be shot this year.

Karan Johar is producing this film. But the shooting of the film has been postponed due to controversies since the first lockdown and after Sushant’s death last month. Now it is heard that Alia has pulled out of this project.

Janhvi, Sara also substitute for the film

Sources close to Karan Johar, who are constantly talking to Dainik Bhaskar about the development of this project, have confirmed this. He said that the situation worsened since May 24 this year. Alia Bhatt has now said that she will not be able to do this film. However, it is not being said why Alia Bhatt did this? Karan Johar has provided Arunima Sinha as an alternative to Janhvi Kapoor and Sara Ali Khan as Alia Bhatt’s refusal.

Kangana Runot is second choice of Makers

Karan has also been convincing Arunima Sinha for the last one year that Alia is a talent in her house. She will not refuse. But now when Alia refused the project, Karan Johar asked Arunima Sinha to do a film with either Janhvi Kapoor or Sara Ali Khan. But Arunima Sinha has denied this. He bluntly said that either Alia should do this film or the other choice is Kangana Ranot. But Karan will not do it with Kangana.

Karan will persuade Alia in 3 months

On this, Karan Johar has asked for 2 to 3 months time. Said that he will convince Alia for this character. This whole incident took place between May 23 and the first week of June. At that time, Arunima Sinha was providing assistance to people suffering from coronavirus in Lucknow. Meanwhile, Karan Johar’s team told Arunima Sinha earlier that Alia is no longer on the project. Later, when Arunima Sinha had a conversation with Karan, both of them put forward their views, opinions and options.

It will be interesting to see whether Karan Johar convinces Alia in the next two months. Dainik Bhaskar wanted to contact Karan Johar but he changed his number so he could not be contacted. On this, the director of that film Neeraj Ghaywan was also asked about this, but he too has not received any reply so far.