Varun Dhawan and Alia Bhatt starrer 'Badrinath Ki Dulhania' draws a lot of similarities from Dharma Productions' previous film 'Humpty Sharma Ki Dulhania' which also starred Varun and Alia in the lead. Karan Johar, in a media interaction, has said that the film is a part of Dharma's 'love franchise'.
However, director of 'Badrinath Ki Dulhaniya', Shashank Khaitan cleared the air about the film being a sequel to 'Humpty Sharma Ki Dulhania'. Talking to a popular tabloid, Shashank revealed, "When I first wrote the story of 'Badrinath Ki Dulhania', I just had a story without a title. It was a pure heartland love story. Immediately after I narrated the script to Karan (Johar, producer), he told me there was nothing in common between this one and 'Humpty..'. The stories are connected by themes of love and wedding, but it’s not a sequel."
Shashank also admitted to the tabloid that he was over-confident post the success of 'Humpty Sharma Ki Dulhania'. The director further added, "I wrote a full-blown NRI love story, succumbing to the pressure of making a bigger film. Karan was baffled and aghast when he read it. He said, to write an NRI film one need to meet them and spend a lot of time abroad. ‘Just write the best you can, don’t write my world’."
Varun, Alia, and Shashank are going all out to promote the film. 'Badrinath Ki Dulhaniya' will soon hit theatres on the 10th of March.
