Mahesh Bhatt’s ‘Aashiqui 3’ Goes On Floor With A New Name

Mumbai: Amidst a dispute over the ownership of ‘Aashiqui’ title, filmmaker Vikram Bhatt on Friday announced that ‘Aashiqui 3’ is being made, but with a new name.

Vikram took to his Instagram handle to reveal that the third instalment of ‘Aashiqui’ has been named as ‘Tu Meri Poori Kahani’.

The filmmaker shared some BTS moments from the upcoming movie.

“It’s ironic that parties should fight over the title Aashiqui when my boss (Mahesh Bhatt) made the film and did not even find the need to stake claim. Then I said to him, like the dialogue from the film ‘Deewar’, ‘Mere pass Bhatt sahab hain’. Don’t need any title when I have the one who creatively engineered it. Let’s do it again”, Vikram wrote.

“A new boy – new girl love story with great music!” Boss thought a while and then said, ‘I have a story. Suhrita will direct it’. ‘Tu Meri Poori Kahani’ was born. Then came @ajay_murdia and he understood our dream and made it a reality! Here is the man Mahesh Bhatt and his rage, kicking ass like no one else does,” he concluded.

The 1990s ‘Aashiqui’ was a musical blockbuster starring newcomers Rahul Roy and Anu Aggarwal in lead roles.

‘Aashiqui 2’, starring Shraddha Kapoor and Aditya Roy Kapur as the lead pair, was also a huge hit.

While ‘Aashiqui’ and ‘Aashiqui 2’ were jointly produced by Vishesh Films Private Limited and Super Cassettes Industries Limited (T-Series), the dispute over the title began when the two production houses claimed individual rights over the usage of the title for their future projects.

Hence, Mahesh is making the third movie of ‘Aashiqui’ franchise with a fresh title.

Created by brothers Mahesh and Vikram, ‘Tu Meri Poori Kahani’ will be directed by Suhrita Das.