Siddharth Anand says despite having Bollywood star Hrithik Roshan on board in his upcoming action drama War, he would not have moved ahead with the project had Tiger Shroff said no to the film. War chronicles the story of an Indian soldier, Khalid (Tiger), who is assigned to eliminate a senior agent and his mentor Kabir (Hrithik) as he has gone rogue.

Siddharth, who worked with Hrithik for their 2014 action film Bang Bang!, said he wrote the two lead parts keeping in mind the two actors.