Shah Rukh Khan keen to avoid Raees-Kaabil but Sanjay Gupta refuses to budge

Mumbai: Filmmaker Sanjay Gupta has refuted the rumours doing the rounds that release date of his upcoming film 'Kaabil' has been postponed.

Sanjay, 46, took to his Twitter handle to rubbish the rumours and confirmed that the Hrithik Roshan starrer 'Kaabil' would hit theatres on January 26, 2017, as scheduled earlier.

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He tweeted, "Dear All KAABIL releases on Jan 26, 2017. Absolutely no change in date. Hope this clears all unnecessary rumours.Warm regards."

Speculations regarding the change in 'Kaabil's release date started when SRK recently told media, "We have spoken to Hrithik and also Ritesh Sidhwani and Farhan Akhtar (producers of Raees). That was a month ago, but I guess now we can do some adjustments. Rakeshji (Kaabil producer Rakesh Roshan) and Ritesh and Farhan will be meeting again. We are trying to figure things out, so we don’t have a clash."

Explaining his reasons further, SRK had added, “I think a big film should release in 3,500-4,000 theatres. When two big films release, we don’t get the magnitude of theatrical release we want. Till the time we don’t have 8,000-10,000 theatres, no two big films can come. Raees is nearly ready, we are only left to shoot that last shot."

Starring Yami Gautam in lead role, 'Kaabil' would clash with SRK's highly-awaited film ' Raees' at the box-office.