The reality show winner and telly actress was launched by the filmmaker in the horror flick Haunted

She later went on to do some more films made by his production house with one opposite Aftab Shivdasani that is yet to release Tia will now be seen in Rahat Kazmi's upcoming film that features her with Raghuvir Yadav and Saurabh Shukla. The mahurat of the film was held over the weekend.

Says a source, "Though her film with Aftab has been completed months ago, it has yet to see light of day. Vikram was busy with his other project starring Bipasha Basu and Emraan Hashmi. So she did not want to hang around and decided to take on other projects."

About her reason to move on, Vikram says, "She was never under contract with us." While Tia explains that she took on another film outside his banner because, "earlier I had no time."