Sharman Joshi replaced by Gurmeet Choudhary in the erotic thriller Hate Story 3..

Dashing actor Gurmeet Choudhary, who rose to fame from Imagine TV's mythological show 'Ramayan' made his Bollywood debut earlier this year from  Mahesh Bhatt's horror flick 'Khamoshiyan'. Now, as per the latest buzz, he has been roped in to play parallel lead in the next installment of  'Hate Story'...

Sharman Joshi was supposed to play the lead role in the erotic thriller. And he was even keen to flaunt his bare butt on screen. But, 'Rang De Basanti' actor opted out from the project owing to the date issues.

However, according to the gossip mongers '3 Idiots' fame was replaced because the director Vishal Pandya felt that he is misfit to play a sexually charged role.

According to our sources, "Gurmeet will be seen playing the parallel lead alongside another popular television-turned-bollywood actor, Karan Singh Grover in ‘Hate Story 3′."

Daisy Shah, who made debut with Salman Khan's 'Jai Ho' and Zarine Khan are expected to play the female leads in the erotic thriller. The film is slated for an 11th December release.

For those uninitiated, Gurmeet and Karan had previously acted together in 2013 in a crossover episode of Zee TV's Punar Vivaah and Qubool Hai.

-K Himaanshu Shukla..