I did a bit of digging and read that during whats your rashee, everybody advised to ashutosh to change the lead as harman won't be able to pull off the movie. Ashutosh was confident that people would come to watch the film because of Director's tag and not because of lead. What an idiot.
No doubt the idiot went ahead and cast the worst actor in Bollywood for such a big role. He deserves to fail and kicked out of the industry.