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Upala KBR (DNA; July 19, 2016)

Enlarge ImageIt was announced that Sanjay Dutt’s comeback would be Badlaa, directed by Bang Bang director Siddharth Anand. But the film didn’t take off and now there are reports of Hrithik Roshan teaming up yet again with Siddharth for an out-and-out action-adventure thriller titled Fighter. Dutt has now learnt that the director was in talks with Roshan Jr for Fighter with Hrithik while the actor was prepping for Badlaa, and he is feeling betrayed.

Says a source, “Hrithik will start shooting for Fighter from November this year. Fact is, Siddharth dumped Sanju for Hrithik. He told the producers of Badlaa that he would get Alia Bhatt to do the film, then he said he would get Kriti Sanon on board, but now it seems like delaying tactics.”

The source further adds, “Till he got Hrithik on board, Siddharth kept stalling the Badlaa producers giving the ‘finding the heroine’ excuse. Finally, Siddharth managed to give Hrithik a narration in June and got a green signal from him. As soon as that happened, reports of Badlaa being shelved surfaced. Sanju had no clue that he was ditched. Dutt was told that the script didn’t shape up as expected and that is what he chimed when asked about Badlaa.” Anyway, the good news is that Dutt has moved on to bigger things. His next release us a Vidhu Vinod Chopra production titled Marco Bhau.

It is learnt that Siddharth has the remake rights of the Rambo franchise and he has plans of making it into a trilogy. The intention is to give this generation their own Indian Rambo, in the form of Hrithik Roshan.