Less of Vidya Balan and more of Emraan Hashmi in Ghanchakkar?

After playing author-backed roles in No One Killed Jessica, The Dirty Picture and Kahaani is Vidya Balan seeking a less pivotal part in her next release Ghanchakkar? Speculation is rife as to why there is less of Vidya Balan in the trailer of Rajkumar Gupta’s Ghanchakkar. According to a source associated with the film’s producers UTV, “After doing a number of films revolving around her Vidya just wanted to be part of a fun film. She had already done an intense female-centric subject No One Killed Jessica with director Rajkumar Gupta. She just wanted to be part the goody oddball comedy about guy who stashes away a huge amount of looted money and forgets where he kept it. She is not the central character.” When one asked director Rajkumar Gupta about Vidya’s comparatively subdued screen time in Ghanchakkar Gupta retorted, “Don’t go by what is in the trailer. Vidya is central to the plot. Of course in my films there are no marginal characters. So even the actors other than Emraan and Vidya are pivotal. Having said that, let me state that Vidya’s fans won’t be disappointed. At the moment Gupta has begun to mix and edit the film. And he thinks Ghanchakkar has turned out to be exactly the way we hoped it would. “There is something crazy about the proceedings. Vidya and Emraan don’t look or behave like a conventionally married couple. Why must we believe that there has to be an element sobriety in a married couple’s conduct? I’ve shown Emraan and Vidya as a wacked-out couple.” The film is being readied for a 28 June (2013) release. One setback that overtook the project was the honourable Supreme Court’s verdict on Sanjay Dutt. Says Gupta, “We had written a role for Sanjay Dutt. He was supposed to play himself. But now it seems unlikely he can do it. So we have scrapped the part. No one can replace Sanjay Dutt.”