Karan Malhotra and Karan Johar

Tongues have been wagging that Karan Malhotra has had a fallout with mentor Karan Johar and moved to the YRF camp, which has signed a three-film deal with him. Shamshera is their first collaboration. Malhotra had been working on Karan Johar's film, Shuddhi, for long. The film went through a change of cast from Hrithik Roshan and Kareena Kapoor to Salman Khan and later Varun Dhawan and Alia Bhatt, but failed to take off. Malhotra then decided to move on from Dharma camp.