For those who didn't know, Shraddha Kapoor wasn't director Mohit Suri's first choice for his screen adaptation of Chetan Bhagat's book 'Half Girlfriend'. He was reportedly keen on signing on actress Katrina Kaif opposite the male lead in the film, Arjun Kapoor.
Finally revealing why, in his latest column, senior journalist Rajeev Masand said, "Mohit had his heart set on casting Katrina in this love story adapted from the Chetan Bhagat best seller. But Katrina, who reportedly liked the script, recommended that he cast another actress because she felt her "screen age" could hurt the film." He further wrote Katrina has done a number of projects with relatively older actors like Salman Khan, Akshay Kumar, and Shah Rukh Khan, and was aware that she is perceived as older than her actual age. She is also well informed of the feedback she got for movies she did with young male actors like Sidharth Malhotra, Aditya Roy Kapoor, and Varun Dhawan. Mohit, who understood her point, moved on to Shraddha and has now completed the film which is set to release next year.
