Priyanka Chopra was never considered for Italian Job remake

January 25th, 2010  |  YahaWaha Published in Bollywood News & Gossips  |  1 Comment

Abhishek not responsible for Priyanka Chopra’s ouster from Italian Job remake

There were widespread media reports few days back about Priyanka Chopra losing out her role in Abbas Mustan’s remake of The Italian Job because of Abhishek Bachchan. The reports claimed, Abhishek was unhappy by the way his good friend and filmmaker Rohan Sippy was left in a lurch by Priyanka Chopra. Reportedly, she did not want to star in his film, opposite a lesser known star, the South star Rana Daggubati. While all these reports were claimed to be generated through sources, we spoke to Abbas-Mustan who sounded very upset about the whole thing and the manner in which Abhishek’s name was unnecessarily dragged into it.
Abbas told us, “The star cast of Italian Job was finalised long time back – we had signed Abhishek Bachchan, Neil Nitin Mukesh and Katrina Kaif in the first go and Katrina was always our first choice so there was no question of talking to Priyanka Chopra. She was never approached or spoken to for this role so how can Priyanka lose out on a role she was never even considered for?”

Abbas further added that it is extremely unfair to needlessly drag Abhishek Bachchan name into it making it sound like a controversy.