Sonu Sood no more a part of ‘Manikarnika’- confirms Kangana Ranaut

Kangana Ranaut’s ‘Manikarnika’ is one film which is currently surrounded by one or the other controversies. After the director credits of the film, new reports suggest that Sonu Sood has walked out of the film, who apparently plays an important role in the film.

A source told Pinkvilla, “Yes, Sonu has left no longer a part of ‘Manikarnika’. And he has informed the film’s producers of his decision. He took a lot of crap from a person who feels she knows how to direct a film without any real qualification to do so. But finally, when Kangana Ranaut officially took over the direction, Sonu could take it no more. He quit the film.”

Confirming the same, Kangana told the publication,“Sonu and I haven’t even met since the last shot with Krish last year. He is busy filming ‘Simmba’. He couldn’t even give us tentative dates to match combinations with other actors. The producers showed him the film and writers narrated the patchwork to him…he refused to meet me …he vehemently denied to work under a woman director….. which is kind of amusing because Sonu is a dear friend and I have even launched the music of a film that he produced on his request….. even though the team suggested that they have full faith in me, it seems, Sonu had neither dates nor faith.”

She added, “And when I last spoke to him he suggested that I can go ahead with someone else and when I narrated the script to Zeeshan he called the studio and gave the dates. By that time it was too late as Zeeshan gave me dates for September. Now I hear I had a showdown with him….. when I never met him, never directed him ….. when did I have this showdown?”

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The actress concluded, “Yes, none of the portions he has shot before will be used because he has spiked hair with gel in his hair ..so the new team of DOP and editors and our writers of Manikarnika have discarded those scenes so I have to shoot all of that anyway so it’s easy to get another actor on board.”

Apart from Kangana, the film also stars TV star Ankita Lokhande in lead role. The film will hit theaters on 25th January 2019 along with ‘Super 30’, ‘Cheat India’,  and ‘Thackery’.

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