Talaash to be postponed again?

On July 8, we told you how, unable to hold back his finicky self, Aamir Khan asked the director of Talaash, Reema Kagti to change portions from the second half of the film.

A meeting between the actor, the director and producers Farhan Akhtar and Ritesh Sidhwani at Khan's Bandra residence turned ugly when Kagti put her foot down and refused to reshoot. And now, the actor seems to have worked out his repartee.

Aamir, who was supposed to fly back to Mumbai from his Dhoom 3 shoot in Chicago, to promote the film, has scrapped the plan. In fact, the dates will now be used for shooting Rajkumar Hirani's Peekay.

Needless to say, this sudden change of heart has left the makers of Talaash in a fix. The film in all probability will now hit the theatres in 2013, after the actor finishes his other commitments.

A source close to the actor revealed, "Aamir will be shooting for Dhoom 3 from October to January 2013. He will take a break in November or December for the first schedule of Hirani's project. Other than that, he will not be in Mumbai for anything."

The actor's choc-a-bloc calendar needless to say, puts the Farhan Akhtar-Ritesh Sidhwani production in a fix. "Aamir seriously feels that Talaash needs rework. Now the team has two options. They can either go ahead and release the film without their lead actor, which could prove disastrous since Aamir films do well only when he is involved with the project. Or, they can wait for the actor to finish shooting Dhoom 3 in Chicago and return to take charge of Talaash," said the source.

Either way, director Kagti has very little choice but to grin and bear it.

Talaash had already been delayed by a few months. And a certain section of the industry believes Aamir may want Dhoom 3 to hit the theatres first.