There is shelved movie titled Short Cut. Starring Saahil Khan,Nigar Khan,Rajat Bedi, Monalisa, Pankaj Dheer, Mushtaq Khan,Mukesh Tiwari,Dimple Asrani.Music by Shankar Ehsaan Loy, Produced by Zeba Shaikh,Dilshad Shama, Directed by Kumar Jay. This was in 2006.
The film takes inspiration from a real life incident which occured during the making of Don (1978) where producer Nariman Irani died before the film got completed and the actors Amitabh Bachchan, Zeenat Aman and Pran slashed their fees and the money that came from the film's success was given to Irani's widow to settle off his debts.
Amrita Rao replaced Lara Dutta. Lara did not want to act opposite Arshad so she opted out.
Akshaye and Arshad worked together for the second time after Hulchul.
The movies copied from bowfinger 1999