Is this the reason why Vijay Sethupathi missed Aamir Khan’s ‘Lal Singh Chaddha’? – Actor opens up

Bollywood star Aamir Khan’s ‘Lal Singh Chaddha’ is gearing up for a grand release on August 11 in Tamil, Telugu, Hindi, Kannada and Malayalam. The film is an official remake of the Hollywood cult classic ‘Forrest Gump’ which also stars Kareena Kapoor and Tollywood actor Naga Chaitanya. 

The Lal Singh Chaddha team is on a promotional spree ahead of the movie’s release. Aamir Khan and Naga Chaitanya are taking part in interviews with the media people regularly. Naga Chaitanya plays Aamir’s best friend that he finds during his stint in the army in the film. 

For the unaware, Makkal Selvan Vijay Sethupathi was the initial choice to play Naga Chaitanya’s role in the movie. In a recent interview, Naga Chaitanya spoke about working on the movie with Aamir Khan. He then also addressed the questions around him replacing Vijay Sethupathi. 

According to Koimoi, he said, “Honestly I am not really sure about what happened with Vijay sir. They just told me that dates were a problem and nothing more than that. But from what I did understand is that when Vijay sir was supposed to play the character, they were going to design him like a Tamil-speaking boy traveling up North and you know this whole chemistry happening but with me, it became a Telugu-speaking boy because I am from AP Telangana.”