TV Star Ashish Sharma Recalls Being Replaced By Aditya Roy Kapur In Action Replayy: Achanak Se...

Ashish Sharma is known for his performance in TV shows, including Chandragupta Maurya, Siya Ke Ram and Rangrasiya. However, not many know that he began his acting career with the Bollywood movie Love Sex Aur Dhokha (2010) and has starred in several other movies. Throughout his career, the actor experienced many highs and lows in both the TV and movie industry. In a recent interview with Siddharth Kannan, Ashish revealed that he was supposed to star alongside Akshay Kumar and Aishwarya Rai Bachchan in Action Replayy, but was replaced by Aditya Roy Kapur and the makers didn't even inform him about the same.

Ashish Sharma on being replaced by Aditya Roy Kapur in Action Replayy

Ashish shared that one month before the official announcement he was finalised for the role. They did workshops with him for about 10-15 days and all of a sudden the makers stopped calling him. A few days later, he saw the post of Action Replayy featuring Aditya with Akshay and Aishwarya. "Ek mahina pehle humko bola shortlist ho. Humare saath workshops ho rahi thi, 10-15 din wo karte rahe. Ek din achanak se call aana band ho gaya. Uske baad seedha poster dekha, bas, that's it. Aise bohot saare incident hue hain," he said.

Action Replayy marked Aditya's second Bollywood movie after his debut with the 2009 movie London Dreams.

What do we know about Action Replayy?

The sci-fi romantic comedy movie was helmed by Vipul Amrutlal Shah and starred Neha Dhupia, Rannvijay Singh, Om Puri, Kirron Kher and Rajpal Yadav in the supporting roles. The film is an uncredited remake of the 1985 film Back to the Future. However, the director insists that it is an adaptation of a Gujarati play of the same name and of H. G. Wells' The Time Machine.

All you need to know about Ashish Sharma

The actor was last seen in a TV show Prithvi Vallabh in 2018. Post taking a break from TV, he and his wife Archana Taide produced the feature film Khejdi, a film about a transgender played by Sharma himself in 2018. In the movies, he was last seen in the 2022 movie Hindutva.