Hrithik Roshan, Saif Ali Khan, Farhan Akhtar, Shahid Kapoor, Aditya Roy Kapur refused to work in this Karan Johar film

Karan Johar had approached Hrithik Roshan, Saif Ali Khan, Farhan Akhtar, Shahid Kapoor, Aditya Roy Kapur for Shakun Batra's 2016 film Kapoor & Sons, but all of them refused to play a homosexual character on screen. Later on, the role was played by the Pakistani actor Fawad Khan.