India, Aug. 9 -- Malayalam filmmaker Jude Anthany Joseph recently opened up about leaving an Ayushmann Khurrana-starrer film midway through discussions. Jude shared that he chose to walk out of the project after his demand to confirm Mohanlal's role in the film was taken lightly. The Malayalam superstar was also referred to as a 'secondary artist' by the production house, a description Jude found insulting to 'one of the finest actors in the country.'

While speaking to Club FM, the Thudakkam director said that he was approached by several production houses across film industrues like Tamil, Telugu for his story, but he chose to develop it with Ayushmann Khurrana as he called the project 'a proper Bollywood film'. He said he had also deve...