Has Abhishek Bachchan walked out of JP Dutta’s ‘Paltan’?

Filmmaker JP Dutta who has made masterpieces like ‘Border’ and ‘LOC Kargil’ had recently announced that he was coming up with a new war based movie titled ‘Paltan’. ‘Paltan’ was supposed to be based on the Indo-China war that happened during the ’60s. The movie was to star a number of actors including Abhishek Bachchan, Suniel Shetty, Arjun Rampal, Pulkit Samrat, Siddhanth Kapoor, Sonu Sood, Gurmeet Chaudhary, Jimmy Sheirgill, Jackie Shroff and Luv Sinha.

However, in a shocking turn of events, it turns out that Abhishek Bachchan has reportedly walked out of the project. What’s even more shocking is that the actor did this 24 hours before the unit had to leave for Ladakh for the first schedule. No one was available for a comment as to why the actor left the project in a lurch.

Nidhi Dutta, the director’s daughter had given the official statement on Bachchan Jr’s exit, saying, “Abhishek Bachchan is no longer part of Paltan for personal reasons best known to him. It has come as a shock to us as this happened less than 24 hours before our unit left to shoot in Ladakh. But we also believe that; especially in the movies we make, it’s the soldiers sitting up there that choose who will play them and recreate their lives on screen. Nevertheless, we wish him luck in his future endeavours. We are already in Ladakh filming with our entire cast and crew and Army personnel. We will announce the actor who is replacing Abhishek in the film soon.”

We wonder what made Abhishek take such a drastic step. Stay tuned for more updates.