Gautham Menon (director of movies like Rehna Hain Tere Dil Mein and Ekk Deewana Tha) had announced his next directorial venture Assi Nabey Poore Sau with Aditya Roy Kapur and Samantha in lead roles. The film, a trilingual with also Tamil and Telugu versions, was being produced by Viacom 18 Motion Pictures.
However, now the Hindi version have been placed on the back-burner despite 75% of the film being shot. What's more, producers Viacom 18 have disassociated themselves from the project and are actually producing only the Telugu and Tamil versions which stars Nani and Jiiva respectively in conjunction with Samantha. Apparently, Viacom was upset with Menon over a false promise made by him that A.R.Rahman can be composing the music for the film. Rahman hadn't given one of these green signal to the project. There's also buzz that the Hindi version was placed on hold since Menon's last Hindi release Ekk Deewana Tha didn't fare well on the B.O.
Whatever be the reason, Assi Nabey Poore Sau finds itself in a state of limbo as of now.
