Katrina Kaif Denies Signing Vikas Bahl’s Next Film

The director had also reportedly signed Amitabh Bachchan.

Bollywood bigwigs Katrina Kaif and Amitabh Bachchan are likely to collaborate with Vikas Bahl – who was accused of sexual harassment by a female member of his crew –on his next directorial venture, Mumbai Mirror had reported on Monday, 23 March.

Twitter was quick to call out the two stars on the collaboration, with many saying that #MeToo in Bollywood is a “sham.”

HuffPost journalist Ankur Pathak had condemned Katrina’s decision but later shared an update saying the actor has denied being a part of such a venture.

UPDATE: heard back from Katrina Kaif, who said that the Mumbai Mirror report - of her doing a film titled ‘Deadly’ with Vikas Bahl - is untrue 🙏

— Ankur Pathak (@aktalkies) March 24, 2020

Vikas Bahl’s film has tentatively been titled Deadly. The film is expected to be a ‘slice-of-life’ comedy. This is also the second film that Bahl is directing a film after he was accused of sexual harassment in October 2018. He also directed the Hritik Roshan-starrer ‘Super 30’ , which was based on the life of math-whiz Anand Kumar.

Here’s what people had to say about this project:

Katrina Kaif and Amitabh Bachchan to collaborate for Vikas Bahl's next, according to a Mumbai Mirror report. #MeToo in Bollywood is a sham. No one cares for the women. Self-service is the only agenda. Pure disgust. FYI, Me Too does nothing to the careers of powerful men. :)

— Priyanka Sharma (@iPriyanka_S) March 23, 2020

At this rate I won't even be surprised if Vikas Bahl makes a movie on the #MeToo movement and gets the national award for it or something https://t.co/wNWORgIkga

— Shreemi Verma (@shreemiverma) March 23, 2020

Oh my fucking god how much I wanted Kat in a woman centric film like Piku....but....but.....Vikas Bahl? Nooooooo. Why do we always get what we want with some repercussions? https://t.co/49yJY5Y8rv

— Sashaank (@sashaank) March 23, 2020