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December 7, 2015, NewsCrunch
A movie that promised to bring together Shahrukh Khan and Alia Bhatt may not happen, say media reports.
Bollywood Life says the movie may get shelved due to creative differences between director Gauri Shinde and one of the producers Karan Johar.
Johar, who was seen as the main backer of the movie, had tweeted about it sometime ago, setting off frenzied reporting on the movie.
The initial talking point was the gaping age difference between the supposed lead pair. At 49, SRK is twice as old as Alia, 22.
While in South film, heroes commonly pair up with young heroines, Bollywood audience is not very keen on that.
Though filmmakers took pain to emphasise that it would not be the regular boy-meets-girl love story and that SRK would play a lengthy cameo, the awkwardness about the movie persisted.
There were also report that SRK was not happy as the movie was drawing attention to his age.
The initial talking point was the gaping age difference between the supposed lead pair. At 49, SRK is twice as old as Alia, 22.
While in South film, heroes commonly pair up with young heroines, Bollywood audience is not very keen on that.
Though filmmakers took pain to emphasise that it would not be the regular boy-meets-girl love story and that SRK would play a lengthy cameo, the awkwardness about the movie persisted.
There were also report that SRK was not happy as the movie was drawing attention to his age.