Seasoned actor and casting director Abhishek Banerjee, who is basking in the success of his two releases - ‘Stree 2’ and ‘Vedaa’ courted controversy for a recent statement he made about his time on ‘Agneepath’ remake, backed by Karan Johar’s Dharma Productions. Abhishek said in an interview with Siddharth Kannan that Dharma shut their doors on him and his associate Anmol Ahuja after they couldn’t align with the vision of Karan Malhotra during the casting of the film starring Hrithik Roshan and Priyanka Chopra Jonas. 

The actor took to X and clarified that his statement was misconstrued. He wrote, “This week I have been blessed with two releases and one controversy. I`ve been reading and hearing a lot of reports about Dharma Productions supposedly firing my company, Casting Bay, during the casting process of ‘Agneepath’. Unfortunately, this situation has been completely misrepresented as accusatory on our part”.