Director Puri Jagannath is directing a bilingual The Businessman with Abhishek Bachchan playing the lead role in the Hindi version and Mahesh Babu in the Telugu version.
Since the director had signed Kajal Agarwal to play the female lead opposite Mahesh Babu, he wanted her to essay the same role in the Hindi version as well. When Abhishek came to know about this, he had reportedly requested Puri Jagananth to consider a new face rather than Kajal.
The buzz in Bollywood is that since Kajal will be making her debut with the Ajay Devgn starrer Singham, Abhishek felt that she cannot be considered a new face in Bollywood anymore.
