Jiah Khan leaves 'Yahoo' by choice

It was Jiah Khan ’s own will to leave movie Yahoo opposite Shahid Kapur , contrary to the past reports that she was removed unceremoniously from the movie.Directed by Ken Ghosh , ‘Yahoo’ had Jiah playing the female lead. But recently Genelia D'Souza stepped in her shoes. And the reasons cited were that Jiah’s presence in the movie didn’t spark that magic which the director wanted. Another rumoured reason was that Shahid was not so fond of Jiah.While Jiah herself opted out of this movie, UTV Motion Pictures, producers of ‘Yahoo’, have signed her for two other projects.

“UTV has signed me for two of their future films to be started later this year,” said the actress. And UTV’s COO Ram Mirchandani also cleared the rumours troubling Jiah. He said, “Speculations in the industry about Jiah Khan being dropped out of Ken Ghosh’s project are completely erroneous. It was a mutual decision whereby Jiah opted out of the project seeing a misfit between the character and Jiah.”

Actually when Manurishi Chadda of Oye Lucky! Lucky Oye! fame joined the writer’s team of Nupur Asthana (script writer) and dialogue writer Kiran Kotriyal, certain changes were done in the script and the characterization of female lead as well. After this, both production house and Jiah Khan came to the conclusion that role didn’t suit her. “With the changes they made on the script and the character, I myself felt that I do not suit the character”, says Jiah.
However, UTV acknowledges Jiah’s talent and acting skills and is in a process to start soon the projects with her.