When Kangana Ranaut was entrusted the responsibility of reimagining a few portions of Manikarnika: The Queen Of Jhansi, little had she imagined that she would find a hurdle in co-star Sonu Sood. Having moved on to his next project Simmba, the actor had grown a beard for the actioner - a look that was at odds with his Sadashiv Rao avatar in the period drama and hence posed a problem with the continuity. In order to justify Sood's new look, we hear, Ranaut amended the script to incorporate a time lapse.

A source informs, "Sonu was required to sport facial fuzz in Simmba. He found himself in a spot when he was asked to shoot few scenes of Manikarnika again, wherein he sports a thin moustache. Sonu could not even go clean as he was simultaneously shooting for Ranveer Singh's cop drama."