The Ek Thi Daayan director Kannan Iyer who has taken off on a holiday after the release of his film, agrees with the critics who feel the second-half of the film has gone wrong.

After two shelved films with Abhay Deol, Navdeep Singh of Manorama Six Feet Under seems to have finally found a script that can be directed. We have it from a very reliable source that Navdeep’s new project is about a female detective who is out to solve a murder mystery. Navdeep has firmed in on Freida Printo to star in the film. She has shown a keen interest. However, there’s one problem.

What we saw in Rani Mukherjee’s comeback film Aiyyaa is not what we were supposed to get. One learns from very reliable sources close to the project that director Sachin Kundalkar, revelling in his image of the National-award winner, had his way over and above the wishes the producers, and insisted on editing the film the way he wanted to. A very distressed pivotal player in the fiasco that is <em>Aiyyaa</em> says Kundalkar showed a very different version of the film to his producers Viacom and Rani Mukherjee from what he finally edited and released in theatres on Friday.

Starring: <strong>Rani Mukherjee, Prithviraj & A Cast Of Certifiable Lunatics</strong> Directed by <strong>Sachin Kundalkar</strong> Rating: <strong>***</strong>