Vickey Lalwani (MUMBAI MIRROR; March 8, 2014)

Bang Bang director Siddharth Anand’s woes show no signs of abating. His leading man Hrithik Roshan’s injury, in the early days of the film’s shoot in Phuket, played havoc with the film’s schedule as well as his reel love interest Katrina Kaif’s date diary.

They have resumed shooting now but the film’s choreographer Ahmed Khan has opted out of the project.

Mirror has it that Ahmed bowed out after he was asked to choose between Bang Bang and the Salman Khan starrer Kick. He chose Sallu over Duggu.

Ahmed has been replaced with Bosco-Ceasar who have already flown to Delhi.

His exit has shocked the industry because he had commited to Bang Bang much earlier. So why did Ahmed shift his priority towards Kick?

A source close to the film reveals, “Ahmed’s dates went haywire because the schedule of Kick got extended by two days and ate into the dates allotted to Bang Bang. A few days ago, Siddharth called him up and they had a long chat. He asked Ahmed why he had not made it to Delhi yet. The conversation ended with Siddharth telling Ahmed that he needs to take a call immediately.”

Ahmed decided to leave Bang Bang. “He had huge differences with Salman during the making of Ek Tha Tiger. Only recently, they patched up with Sajid playing mediator. Moreover, he couldn’t have left a Salman-Jacqueline song midway when both were in the mood to improvise. That's the reason the Kick song needed two extra days to complete,” the source points out.

When contacted, Ahmed confirmed the news and said, “Yes, I am out of Bang Bang after choreographing a song for the film. It was a tough call but I decided to continue with Kick.”