Film editor and screenwriter Apurva Asrani took to social media to tweet his support to Kartik Aaryan. Apurva took to Twitter to speak in support of Kartik and also talked about how late actor Sushant Singh Rajput was also 'bullied' in his career. "I respect Anubhav Sinha for calling out the very obvious campaign against #KartikAaryan. A year ago I had blogged about the bullying Sushant Singh Rajput went through. And though I remain blacklisted for it by many journalists, I feel like something IS changing for the better," Apurva tweeted.
His tweet came in reaction to a tweet by Anubhav Sinha the day before, which reads: “And by the way… when Producers drop Actors or vice versa they don’t talk about it. It happens all the time. This campaign against Kartik Aryan seems concerted to me and very bloody unfair. I respect his quiet. "Last month, Dharma Productions of Karan Johar had tweeted that their film Dostana 2, which starred Kartik in the lead with Janhvi Kapoor, was being recast. It came after media reports said that Kartik had a disagreement with the film's director Colin D'Cunha. Dharma said in their statement that the film was being recast due to "professional circumstances".