Varun-Arjun to do a partition drama and Karan Johar to produce it?

Mumbai: After producing India’s first ever underwater film ‘The Ghazi Attack’, Karan Johar is highly likely to produce a film set in the partition era with Varun Dhawan and Arjun Kapoor in it.

According to a report in Mumbai Mirror, Director of ‘2 States’, Abhishek Varman, had approached Johar about two years back with his partition drama script which the producer-turned-actor wasn’t too happy about and advised Varman to make changes in it.

Now that the script is almost ready, casting for the film is underway and Varun and Arjun are front runners to play lead roles. They are rumoured to play brothers in the film.

While Abhishek chose to stay mum on this topic, a source close to this development told Mumbai Mirror, “He is fine-tuning the script at the moment and will be presenting the final draft to Karan in a week’s time. Casting is underway. Contrary to rumours, the film is not on the backburner now. Karan didn’t want to go ahead without the perfect script but things seem to be working out now. The film is expected to go on the floors in the coming months.”

This news also takes us back to the time when Arjun and Varun featured together on ‘Koffee With Karan’ and some enviable bromance was on display. Was it a PR stunt of some sorts? Like introducing them as ‘brothers’ so that the audience gets used to their camaraderie before the film goes on the floors? May be, may be not!