However, Karan Johar decided to change the female characters to Indian Muslims to avoid further trouble after the film ran into controversy over the casting of a Pakistani actor Fawad Khan.Ĥ. The two leading female characters were originally supposed to be Pakistani women. Indian Political parties were against the release of the film, due to the involvement of Pakistani actors like Fawad Khan and Imran Abbas, as there were tensions between India and Pakistan after the Uri attack on September 18, 2016.ģ. The Censor Board later deleted three intimate scenes between Aishwarya Rai and Ranbir Kapoor.Ģ. Amitabh Bachchan, the father-in-law of Aishwariya Rai Bachchan, was upset with the bold scenes she had shot for the film.