Siddharth Malhotra replaces John Abraham!

John Abraham is no longer a part Shah Rukh Khan's next production 'Happy New Year', to be directed by Farah Khan. Karan Johar's protege Siddharth Malhotra has now stepped in the role that was orginally offered to John Abraham.
The film has roles for four male heroes and Farah (who bonded with John over their Parsi roots during the shooting of Houseful 2 songs), was keen to have him in the film but John Abraham kept dily-dallying after orginally saying yes. He was even unavailable on phone and when he finally got back to her, he said he wasn't keen to do the role as he only wanted to do solo heroes film. Which is strange because all his hits have been in two hero films ('Dostana', 'Desi Boyz', 'Houseful 2') and most of his hero films have flopped ('Force' being the last).
But John is now producing a film and playing the main lead.
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