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Kartik Aaryan is set to star in a new high-concept comedy produced by Karan Johar and Mahaveer Jain, directed by Mrighdeep Singh Lamba. This film is notable for featuring a snake as the main antagonist. However, it has come to light that Akshay Kumar was initially approached for the lead role but decided to turn it down.<\/p>\n
Sources say that discussions were ongoing between Akshay and the producers. Ultimately, he opted out, citing concerns about the film’s theme of a conflict between humans and a snake. Akshay has previously starred in films that involved similar themes and felt hesitant to revisit that territory.<\/p>\n
After Akshay’s departure, Karan Johar and Mahaveer Jain quickly moved to bring Kartik Aaryan on board. Kartik reportedly loved the idea of facing off against a snake and eagerly accepted the role. He believes that this project will be another successful addition to his portfolio, especially following his success with the supernatural hit, Bhool Bhulaiyaa 2<\/em>.<\/p>\n The film is expected to begin filming in October 2025 and is slated for release in the latter half of 2026.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Kartik Aaryan is set to star in a new high-concept comedy produced by Karan Johar and Mahaveer Jain, directed by Mrighdeep Singh Lamba. This film is notable for featuring a snake as the main antagonist. However, it has come to light that Akshay Kumar was initially approached for the lead role but decided to turn<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9287,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rank_math_lock_modified_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[511,4207,526,10382,10543,514,10544],"class_list":["post-9286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bollywood","tag-akshay-kumar","tag-karan-johar","tag-kartik-aaryan","tag-mahaveer-jain","tag-mrigdeep-singh-lamba","tag-news","tag-the-snake"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9286\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}