SHRUTI HAASAN OPTS OUT…

Shruti Haasan has been having a great run with her films this year across Hindi, Tamil and Telugu. In Tamil she is awaiting her next film Puli with Vijay while she is also working in Thala 56 with Ajith. Recently Welcome Back, her Hindi film is also doing good business.

In Hindi, she was in talks with Milan Luthria of The Dirty Picture fame for his next titled Baadshaho opposite Ajay Devgn. However, now it seems like Shruti will not be a part of this film.

Says an insider industry source,

"Shruti and Milan had quite a few meetings and conversations. Shruti seemed happy about the film's story and how her role was described in those meetings. Hence she agreed verbally but also requested to see a final script before signing on the dotted line, as is the standard norm today. After working with Akshay Kumar and John Abraham, working with Ajay Devgn, a respected senior actor, was also something that made her look at the film more strongly. However, once the latest narration of the revised script draft was shared with her, her character didn't seem like how it was narrated to her initially as it didn’t quite add as much to the story anymore even though she was really looking forward to working with Milan Luthria”.

Besides these factors, the schedule of the film’s shoot has also now been pushed by a few months which coincides with the shoot of her two South projects. Taking all these into consideration, Shruti had politely declined being part of Baadshaho, but she is also hopeful of another opportunity to work with Milan and Ajay.