In the march 2024, Vashu Bhagnani and Pooja Entertainment announcement the new project Ashwatthama: The Saga Continuous with Shahid Kapoor as main lead replacing Vicky Kaushal. The movie was to be made on high scale and its budget was kept Rs 500 Crores inr, making it Shahid’s biggest budget film till date.

The insider from the production team shared that the movie is on way to be on hold due to the financial problem,the movie was suppose to be made on high scale and the scene were planned to be shot across various locations on globe.When they started pre production work they got to know that this budget was insufficient and they would require more for logistics and all,so they may put Ashwatthama movie on hold.

Shahid Kapoor who already began the physical transformation for portraying the role of legendary Ashwatthama on screen, but if really the project gets break then it will take longer time to venture again. There news coming out that Shahid Kapoor is moving forward towards his next project with Sanjay Leela Bhansali and the meetings are happening between them.