Saif Ali Khan and Rani Mukherjee recently teamed up after a long time in the film 'Bunty Aur Babli 2' and they were complimented by the young pair of Siddhant Chaturvedi and Sharvari Wagh in it. The film opened to moderate reviews. While fans liked the overall entertainment aspect of the film, some of them were bothered by the fact that Saif Ali Khan was cast into the role which was originally played by Abhishek Bachchan.

Such discussions were happening before the release as well but Saif kept quite about them. However, the actor recently responded to the buzz and shared the circumstances that led to him getting cast instead of Abhishek.

Saif told Pinkvilla, "I got a call from Aditya Chopra saying that would I have any qualms stepping in to play a role that another actor has played. And he said for some reason, they were not able to take the conversation forward. And do I have issues with it? I said that Hum Tum came to me like that as well and that happens. As long as everyone is clear and there’s no bad blood or no controversies around and you have gone about it the right way which of course they would, then I don’t really have an issue with that. It is a very different role, different than the usual.”