in august 2007, producer sohail khan announced that the film's title was changed to "mr and mrs khanna", and was expected to go on floors in november 2007 with lara dutta being signed on for the female lead. unfortunately, dutta was dropped from the film for unknown reasons and rumours had indicated that khan was in talks with kareena kapoor and deepika padukone. the producer later confirmed the news to the media indicating that he had signed kapoor for the film.