‘Expected that Ayan Mukerji would send me the script of Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani,’ says Muzammil Ibrahim: ‘Ayan and I were good friends but…’

Muzammil Ibrahim shared that he had worked with Ayan Mukerji while Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani was being scripted, but as soon as the conversation about casting began, the correspondence was taken over by the casting department. “That communication was being done via the casting people, even though Ayan and I were very good friends at the time. We had been discussing the process, but when the conversation shifted towards casting, I don’t know how they conducted the communication. Even the casting guys play a lot of games,” he said.

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In an earlier chat with Siddharth Kannan, Muzammil shared that the role of Avi, eventually played by Aditya Roy Kapur, was written for him. “Ayan liked me a lot. He told me that he was writing Yeh Jaawani Hai Deewani keeping me in mind,” he shared. In the same chat, Muzammil spoke about his two-year relationship with Deepika Padukone and said that he endorsed her casting for the film, even though they had broken up years ago.

“He would often discuss casting with me, if he should take Deepika Padukone, Katrina Kaif… He would discuss this with me. We were very close. Deepika was the right cast for that film and I told him the same thing,” he said.