Gaurang Doshi responds to Ileana D’Cruz’s legal threats

When ‘Aankhen 2’ was announced on Wednesday, the cast was also confirmed after months of speculation. The announcement has gone sour a little for the makers though as Ileana D’Cruz has said she wasn’t signed for the film even though she was said to be a part of the Anees Bazmee production.

Director Gaurang Doshi says that if they wanted to lie about D’Cruz being a part of the venture then they would’ve chosen a more popular actress to associate. He told Mumbai Mirror, “Aankhen 2 doesn’t need Ileana, we already have our four aces- Amitji, Arjun, Arshad and Anil. If we wanted to use an actor’s name to promote our film, we would have said that Aankhen 2 stars Deepika Padukone or Katrina Kaif! Ileana is not going to get us additional distributors, exhibitors or viewers”.

Doshi said that D’Cruz had said she’d be a part of the film’s launch and that she’d taken to the soundtrack. He admitted his surprise that the actress’s manager told media that she wasn’t involved in the film, “We have been trying to speak to her to find out what went wrong, she doesn’t seem to want to speak to us. Someone has definitely misguided her”.

He concluded, “…Looks like we’ll have to get a better actress on board too”.

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