Director Vasan Bala took to Instagram recently to clarify his stance on the controversy regarding Karan Johar sending the unfinished Jigra script to Alia Bhatt without informing the filmmaker.

In an interview with Tried & Refused Productions, Vasan had said that he was "really not happy" with Karan forwarding his “roughly drafted” script of Jigra to Alia without hygiene checks. He had said, "I had sent one very kaccha pakka (roughly drafted) email, very stream of consciousness thought, sent it to Karan. I think six or seven hours later, he called saying, 'I've already set it to Alia'. I was really not happy with it. I was like, 'I would have at least done some spellcheck, grammar check, hygiene, written some very nice hero entry. So that email was sent, I was like, 'Why did you do this?'. Karan said, 'No, no, this is how it works'.”

Social media users, however, inferred that Karan played favourites with Alia and made Vasan sign her for the film.

Vasan on Sunday posted on Instagram of Alia in billboards from Gangubai Kathaiwadi (2022) and Jigra (2024) and said that he wished to work with the actor long back. “The photo on the left, I had taken in 2022 and wished...
The photo on the right at the same spot, 2024! Wish fulfilled!” he captioned the post.

“Of course we can keep discussing other things too, to each his own.... October 11th will be the final answer,” he added.

Earlier, Karan had also taken to Instagram to state that both Vasan’s tone and his comments were misrepresented on social media. A part of his response read, “The gore misinterpretation of his comment about me sending the script to Alia without his grammar checks made me laugh initially at the ludicrousness of it all but now is truly annoying me (sic)... and if you see his interview and hear his tone you will totally get it! BUT NO ' much ado about nothing is all over the place' I fold my hands and tell everyone please hear and read entire interviews before making click bait assumptions.! Loads of Love to all of you.”

Jigra, also starring Vedang Raina, will release in theatres on October 11.