{"id":24404,"date":"2025-07-26T01:35:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-26T01:35:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/24404\/"},"modified":"2025-07-26T01:35:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-26T01:35:11","slug":"suneel-darshan-reveals-akshay-kumar-quit-barsaat-due-to-link-up-rumours-with-priyanka-chopra-had-repercussions-on-his-personal-life-hindi-movie-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/24404\/","title":{"rendered":"Suneel Darshan reveals Akshay Kumar quit \u2018Barsaat\u2019 due to link-up rumours with Priyanka Chopra: \u2018Had repercussions on his personal life\u2019 | Hindi Movie News"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Akshay Filmmaker Suneel Darshan<\/a> has revealed that actor Akshay Kumar<\/a> suddenly walked out of the 2005 romantic drama \u2018Barsaat\u2019, even after filming a song with Priyanka Chopra<\/a>. The film eventually starred Bobby Deol<\/a>, Priyanka<\/a> Chopra and Bipasha Basu<\/a>, but it was originally designed for Akshay and Priyanka to reunite after their hit film \u2018Andaaz\u2019.Suneel, who directed and produced the film, spoke about this unexpected change in casting during a conversation with Vickey Lalwani on his YouTube channel. He hinted that media gossip and personal issues in Akshay\u2019s life played a big part in the actor\u2019s decision to leave.<\/p>\n

Film was planned after \u2018Andaaz\u2019<\/p>\n

Suneel explained that the film was developed soon after their earlier hit. \u201cBarsaat was designed immediately after Andaaz to again be a triangular love story with a new dimension, and Akshay was cast in the lead role.\u201d He said Akshay had some scheduling problems in the beginning and asked for a small delay, which the producer agreed to.<\/p>\n

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Song with Priyanka was already filmed<\/p>\n

The team had already completed the music and even shot a romantic number with Akshay and Priyanka. But then, things started getting delayed when Priyanka had to travel abroad. \u201cPriyanka Chopra had some international shows for which she was out for 3 months. So the film kept getting delayed,\u201d Suneel said.<\/p>\n

Akshay asked to meet on set<\/p>\n

When Priyanka came back and the film was set to move into its final stage, Suneel got an unexpected invite from Akshay, not to the office as usual, but to the actor\u2019s set. The filmmaker recalled, \u201cHe called me to inform me that there were some issues which were uncontrollable and had repercussions on his personal life. He asked me to take a decision on how we move forward.\u201d<\/p>\n

Personal troubles behind the exit<\/p>\n

Although rumours about a possible relationship between Akshay and Priyanka had already reached the media, Suneel made it clear that Akshay didn\u2019t refuse to work with Priyanka directly. \u201cEither of them, the circumstances had reached such a point where\u2026 there were issues,\u201d he explained. The decision was left to the producer. \u201cThe audience, the public, the media did mention of a relationship, which the wife got more of\u2026\u201dSuneel admitted he was taken aback when Akshay walked away from the film after so much effort had already gone into it. He added, \u201cSuddenly after asking that person to wait for 18 months for your dates, you one day just say, \u2018Sorry, I can\u2019t be a part of it.\u2019 I was shocked.\u201d<\/p>\n

Akshay promised for 100 movies<\/p>\n

Akshay later tried to make it up to the filmmaker by offering to work on another film instead. But by then, Suneel had already made up his mind, \u201cHe did want to compensate by saying that I did the next film for you. But I did not. I just thought this was unbelievable. Coming from Akshay\u2026 your expectations were never too much.\u201dDespite everything, Suneel held no grudges against the actor. He ended the topic on a calm note, sharing how much they had worked together over the years. \u201cHe had promised me he would want to do 100 movies with me. I managed to do seven,\u201d Suneel concluded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Filmmaker Suneel Darshan has revealed that actor Akshay Kumar suddenly walked out of the 2005 romantic drama \u2018Barsaat\u2019,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24405,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[19784,10121,19788,19781,19785,19787,49,48,75,337,19786,19782,19783],"class_list":{"0":"post-24404","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-2005-romantic-drama","9":"tag-akshay-kumar","10":"tag-andaaz-movie","11":"tag-barsaat-movie","12":"tag-bipasha-basu","13":"tag-bobby-deol","14":"tag-ca","15":"tag-canada","16":"tag-entertainment","17":"tag-movies","18":"tag-priyanka","19":"tag-priyanka-chopra","20":"tag-suneel-darshan"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24404\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}