Alia Bhatt was Varun Dhawan’s first choice for Coolie No 1 : Bollywood News

The first and according to insiders the “only” choice for Karisma Kapoor’s role in David Dhawan’s remake of his own Coolie No 1 was Alia Bhatt. In fact the entire project was re-formatted to suit Varun Dhawan and Alia, as the millennial Govinda and Karisma.

Alia Bhatt was Varun Dhawan’s first choice for Coolie No 1

But then Alia is completely immersed in her work commitments till the end of the year. More importantly, it was felt that the Alia-Varun pair must be rendered exclusive for the ‘Dulhaniya’ series.

Says a source, “Karan Johar has produced two films Humpty Sharma Ki Dulhaniya and Badrinath Ki Dulhaniya in Varun-Alia Dulhaniya series and the third is planned. He would want to keep it exclusive to the series.”