In September 2015 , YRF announced Chopra 's directorial comeback , titled '' Befikre '' , scheduled for a December 2016 release . In October 2015 , it was announced that Ranveer Singh and Vaani Kapoor would be cast in the lead roles . In December 2015 , YRF announced that the music of the film will be produced by Vishal-Shekhar and Jaideep Sahni , both of whom would return to collaborate with YRF after roughly 9 years . This would mark Chopra 's directorial comeback after roughly 8 years ( his '' Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi '' released in 2008 ) . A theatrical trailer of the film was released at the Eiffel Tower and across social media platforms in the month of October . The film was budgeted at ( including P&A ) and released across 2900 screens worldwide on 9 December 2016 . It opened to widespread negative reviews across platforms and faced heavy losses to its business because of the currency demonetisation implied by the Government of India a few days prior to its release . The film managed to gross after a two-week theatrical run at the global box office failing to manage break-even business for YRF
currency demonetisation
2016 Indian banknote demonetisation
Aditya Chopra