Sushant Singh Rajput was supposed to do 'Chandu Champion', not Kartik Aaryan: 'Story rights were with Sushant'

Sushant Singh Rajput unfortunately passed away very early in June 2020. His death left the nation in shock and fans deeply miss the actor today and feel sad. Sushant was a part of many memorable movies, with of course, 'MS Dhoni' biopic being one of his top roles. But did you know that Sushant was also supposed to do the biopic on the life of Murlikant Petkar, India’s first Paralympic gold medallist, which eventually got made with Kartik Aaryan.
This big revelation has now being made by actor Bhuvan Arora. He said during a chat with Hindi Rush, "Ironically, I did a movie Chandu Champion. Initially, Sushant was supposed to do it. He had the rights to that film. Story rights were also with Sushant. He must have bought it from Murlikant Petkar. Even Murlikant sir said it in one of the interviews. I bumped into Sushant at the airport and he told me that he was going to do a film about a paralympic swimmer. We both loved acting and used to talk to each other, we discussed on the film."
He added, "Obviously, it slipped off my mind. Recently, when Chandu Champion was released, I saw an interview of Murlikant sir in which he said that Sushant was supposed to do this film initially. I don’t know the details of it but ironically, that time I wasn’t there in that movie. Now, I was a part of this film but Sushant wasn’t there."
'Chandu Champion' was directed by Kabir Khan.