Only a few days ago, mid-day reported that Kartik Aaryan and Vishal Bhardwaj were in talks for a gritty thriller, which would mark their maiden collaboration (Talking thrillers, March 22). Now, we’ve dug deeper and learnt that the film is apparently a reimagination of a thriller that the filmmaker was planning with the late Irrfan, and Deepika Padukone.

Deepika Padukone and Irrfan were to originally star in the thriller