A story on an entertainment portal suggested that Kartik Aaryan may no longer be part of producer Firoz Nadiadwala's pie-in-the-sky project Hera Pheri 3, due to, and we quote, “Kartik Aaryan’s reportedly old and dominating(sic.) habit of trying to control the shots on every film he has signed, much to the producer’s frustration.”
The hostile report also claimed that “filmmaker Firoz Nadiadwala is in very positive and promising talks for Hera Pheri 3 with Akshay Kumar again.”