Alarmed by the news that Ekta Kapoor was going to take Emraan Khan, Huma Qureshi, composer Vishal Bharadwaj to the ongoing Kumbh mela on the Mauni Amavasya day on 10 February to take a dip at the holy Sangam and pray for the success of her ensuing release <em>EK Thi Dayan</em>, the UP government has asked people in Bollywood to refrain from visiting the ongoing <em>Maha Kumbh</em> for promotion of their upcoming films.

Vishal Bhardwaj and Ekta Kapoor's forthcoming Emraan Hashmi-starerr <em>Ek Thi Daayan</em>, as the title suggests, is a spooky take on witches. However, director Kannan Iyer is surprised as the set in the Film City seems to have become a regular visiting ground for animals. When Kannan began shooting for the film at the studio that is a thickly populated forest area, for the first time, the set got infested with reptiles from nowhere. The entire set had to be cleaned up. That meant that a lot of time was wasted and the shoot got delayed.