Thanks to the facial fuzz he sports for Rohit Shetty's Ranveer Singh-starrer Simmba, Sonu Sood finds himself out of Kangana Ranaut's Manikarnika: The Queen Of Jhansi. mid-day has it that Mohammed Zeeshan Ayyub, who featured in Ranaut's 2015 film Tanu Weds Manu Returns, is being roped to play Sadashivrao Bhau, the commander-in-chief of the Maratha army, a part that Sood had shot for in the periodic drama.

A previous picture of Sonu Sood from the set of Manikarnika