When Pyaar Ka Punchnama and Sonu Ke Titu Ki Sweety director Luv Ranjan announced that he was going to make a film with Ajay Devgn and Ranbir Kapoor, the narrative that emerged was a predictable (and justifiable) one: the filmmaker was moving up after proving he could make hit films that people wanted to see. But the rumour in Bollywood was that his muse of four films, Kartik Aaryan, whose star was also rising post the success of Sonu Ke Titu Ki Sweety, may have been hurt that the director had decided to move on to working with ‘bigger’ stars.
The film with Ajay and Ranbir did not ultimately materialise, but Ranjan will direct one with Ranbir and Shraddha Kapoor, he recently announced. Kartik, meanwhile, is making films with top names like Imtiaz Ali and Karan Johar. Yet, insiders say, there is hurt.
Recently though one has learnt that Kartik may have been successful, after all, in impressing upon Ranjan to do another film together because a third Pyaar Ka Punchnama film or a sequel to Sonu could be in the works. Kartik and his co-star in both those films Sunny Singh met with Ranjan recently to brainstorm over ideas. So while the filmmaker will still make the Ranbir-Shraddha project next, he may, in every likelihood, return to work with his old favourites right after.
(Source: PeepingMoon)
