E4 Entertainment, producers of Dhruv Vikram’s maiden venture in Tamil cinema Varmaa, have announced that they are unhappy with Bala’s final version and decided to scrap the movie.
Interestingly, the Tamil version is all compete and ready to go for censors. The audio was launched and teaser too was out.
E4 Entertainment in their statement said that Bala’s version will be dropped and a new director will replace him soon.
However, Vikram’s son Dhruv will be seen playing the protagonist in Varmaa, the Tamil remake of Arjun Reddy.
“E4 Entertainment had engaged B Studios to remake the Tamil version of Arjun Reddy titled as VARMAA, on a first copy basis, on the latter’s insistence. We at E4 Entertainment are not at all happy with the final version handed over to us. Due to various creative and other differences, we have decided not to release this version. Instead, we will start a fresh version of ‘Arjun Reddy with Dhruv as the main lead by staying true to the soul and intention of the original. Official announcements regarding the new cast and crew including director will be made shortly. Despite this unfortunate turn of events which has cost us heavily, our love for wanting to see this cult film in Tamil has not diminished in any way. We will, therefore, work tirelessly as a newly united team towards a June 2019 release,” a release said.
Sources say that Bala had made some changes to the script and the running time is very less. Also the story apparently lacked the punch it had in Telugu version. Hence they chose to drop the project. Efforts to contact Bala went in vain.