Tanishaa Mukerji and Ragini Khanna will no longer be part of stand-up comedy show Gangs Of Husseepur. However, Mandira Bedi, who is Tanishaa's partner, has been retained. Says a source from the set, "The production house wasn't too happy with Tanishaa and Ragini and felt they needed to be more spontaneous. Not everything can be scripted."

However, the channel refutes this. Says a channel source, "We haven't asked Tanishaa to leave. There is absolutely no bad blood and the decision is a mutual one. The show is undergoing a makeover and the new format doesn't require two haseenas (jury), so we are retaining Mandira. Ragini will be replaced by Suresh Menon and Sanket Bhosale." Why did they decide to retain Mandira and not Tanishaa? "She has date issues. The schedule of the show had to be realigned because of the change in the format and despite trying, she couldn't make time for it," adds the source.


Tanishaa's spokesperson says, "She was contracted for 16 episodes out of which 10 have already been shot. The channel told her that the show wasn't raking in good ratings and they wanted to restructure it. Post this, there has been no update." Ragini says, "I was signed up for only eight episodes. However, I shot 10 episodes with them."