Actors getting replaced at the drop of a hat is not a new phenomenon in showbiz. There is a long list of actors who had to quit projects at the last minute for one reason or the other. And the latest Bollywood actor who had to face a similar situation is carefree Kalki Koechlin.
Kalki was set to play the female lead in the forthcoming trilingual film Haathi Mere Saathi. The movie is presently being shot in Kerala and Kalki was set to start filming for it soon. However, the latest buzz has it that she has been replaced by Shriya Pilgaonkar.
Shriya, the daughter of veteran actors Sachin Pilgaonkar and Supriya Pilgaonkar, entered Bollywood with Shah Rukh Khan’s film Fan in 2016. She was most recently seen in the Amazon Prime original, Mirzapur.
Haathi Mere Saathi stars Rana Daggubati as the male lead. Pulkit Samrat, Zoya Hussain and Vishnu Vishal also play important roles. It is being helmed by Prabhu Solomon and produced by Inder Singh Bariya, Omshankar Bhagat, Ajay Rai and Sushil Tirwadkar under the banner of Trinity Pictures. It is a tribute to a movie of the same name which starred late superstar Rajesh Khanna in 1971.
The movie is expected to hit theatres towards the end of the year.
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