Ajay Devgn postpones Atithi for friend

Anyone who knows Ajay Devgn's friendliness will vouch that the actor can go to any lengths for his buddies. Everyone saw that during the shoot of All The Best. He let Sanjay Dutt campaign for the elections in the midst of shooting schedules and also gave Fardeen Khan the time to recuperate from his father's death. Now he's extended the same favour towards another of his buddy Aseem Bajaj. On the latter's request, Ajay postponed the release of his film Atiti Tum Kab Jaoge from Feb 26 to March 5.

A source said that Ajay Devgn is very close to cinematographer Aseem Bajaj. Ajay can never refuse friends and bails them out when in trouble. When Aseem was in hospital last year, Ajay had arranged for his entire medical stay there, including his doctor. Aseem's wife Leena, is the director of Teen Patti and Ajay and the couple go back a long way. Aseem was to direct Ajay's home production All The Best but as he had given the dates for Atithi and had to refuse. Aseem is also the DoP (director of photography) for Atithi.

The source added that Leena's Teen Patti was to release on February 12 but because of some problems cannot. The producers of Teen Patti got a release date of February 26 but apart from Atithi Tum Kab Jaoge?, Karthik Calling Karthik is also scheduled to release on the same day. So Aseem and Leena approached Ajay and executive producer Kumar Mangat Pathak and requested them personally to postpone the film. She told them that Teen Patti had already been pushed back and it would help them if Atithi could be pushed back. Ajay graciously agreed to release their film on March 5.

Amita Pathak confirmed that they have been in talks with Aseem and Leena. Since the three films are of different genres, releasing all of them on the same day would cut into their individual markets. They decided to postpone the film. They didn't want the films to clash. Also Teen Patti had already pushed back their date once, so they decided that they should do it this time. They took the decision to postpone Atithi on Sunday evening. We have made some changes to the film and shot the promo song with Ajay, Paresh and Konkona. The film is complete. The promo should come out next week.

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