Thamma director Aditya Sarpotdar recently revealed in an interview that Shraddha Kapoor was initially in talks to play the protagonist Bittu in his last year’s horror-comedy, Munjya. The story was originally written with a female perspective and Bittu’s character was designed to be lesbian. Shraddha plays the daughter of the ghost, Stree in the Maddock Horror Comedy Universe films.  

In an interview with Moviefied, Aditya said that Shraddha and Alia Bhatt were approached for the role of Bittu before it was played by debutant Abhay Verma.

“This was the original story. Yogesh Chandekar, the writer, had written this film with a female perspective and a female protagonist. Bittu was a girl then. She’s in love with her best friend. She’s a lesbian. Nobody understands her. Only Rajji understands her. She tells Rajji, ‘I’m in love with my best friend, nobody would get that.’ And then, Munjya enters the picture and defends her best friend,” Aditya said.

The filmmaker revealed that Shraddha even gave a look test for the film. However, things changed when Aditya joined the project. “I always feel that the core heart and the core narrative of a film should always be the same, not multiple. The audience doesn’t get too many things, they come to focus on only one, and that’s what they want,” he said.

The narrative wasn’t working for Aditya, who felt that the arc of the scary goblin Munjya should be compared to a male Bittu as both of them are in love with a women six years older to them and have different approaches. Aditya said, “Then I suggested, ‘Can we do this?’ And the producer said, ‘Let’s do it.’ So, the whole perspective and the entire game changed after that.”

If Munjya was made with an original idea, Shraddha would have been paired opposite Sharvari in the film, which would have added a new dynamic to the universe.