Kangana Ranaut's ‘Manikarnika: The Queen of Jhansi’ has been making it to the headlines for the past few days. And the latest is, Bollywood actor Sonu Sood who was reportedly playing  the role of Sadashivrao Bhau, walked out of the periodical film. It was because of a scheduling conflict. Apart from the dates, he was also asked to sport a clean-shave look for the film, while he already has the bearded look for Rohit Shetty’s ‘Simmba’.

There is also another buzz in the town which says that Sonu had a tiff with his co-star Kangana who was recently in the news after having her name as director in the clapboard. On being asked about Sonu’s exit, the ‘Queen’ actress said, “Sonu and I haven’t even met since the last shot with Krish (director) last year. He is busy filming Simmba. He couldn’t even give us tentative dates to match combinations with other actors. The producers showed him the film and writers narrated the patchwork to him, he refused to meet me. He vehemently denied to work under a woman director which is kind of amusing because Sonu is a dear friend and I have even launched the music of a film that he produced on his request. Even though the team suggested that they have full faith in me, it seems, Sonu had neither dates nor faith.”

She further said, “When I last spoke to him he suggested that I can go ahead with someone else and when I narrated the script to Zeeshan Ayyub, he called the studio and gave the dates. By that time it was too late as Zeeshan gave me dates for September. Now, I hear I had a showdown with him, when I never met him, never directed him, when did I have this showdown?” When asked if the portions shot with him earlier will now be reshot? Kangana added, “Yes, none of the portions he has shot before will be used because he has spiked hair with gel in his hair, so the new team of DOP and editors and our writers of Manikarnika have discarded those scenes so I have to shoot all of that anyway so it’s easy to get another actor on board. Who keeps spiked hair for a period film?”

Ranaut along with some writers were not happy with Sonu for this – “He himself wrote his scenes of Kushti like Dangal which were never in the script. He and director shot a lot of stuff which was never in the script and the writers discarded those. Is it my fault? Am I writing the film? He wanted the producers to retain the Kushti portions as he made the body for it, for 4 months. How do I know what is happening behind my back? When the writers saw the film, they said they don’t want it.” She took the chance of clearing all the confusion regarding her name as director in the clapboard. She said, “One more thing, I never asked anyone to put my name on clapboard it’s AD’s business. Person on the floor is in charge, is answerable for many things that must have been the idea but constant attacks while I am going through a difficult phase is not acceptable.”