Priyadarshan is apparently not happy with Mallika Sherawat's item number in his upcoming film. According to sources, the director wants to remove it completely from the movie. Ever since Mallika Sherawat replaced Sameera Reddy to the item song. the issue has made headlines.

The latest development is that director Priyadarshan is so unhappy with it that he plans to edit it out completely. However, producer Ratan Jain wants to go ahead with it. According to reports, Sameera was asked to feature in the song, but she declined to shoot for it. In fact, in the beginning the producer had told the cast and crew that Jiah Khan would be doing the item song.

"However, we later got to know that Mallika was doing it, without any clue as to why Jiah was not a part of it any more," revealed a source, asserting that it was Mallika who insisted on doing the item song. "Mallika and Ratanji had an understanding that she would charge a very nominal fee for it and publicise it to the maximum," explained the source.

The source also revealed, "Mallika insisted Ratanji that she should be cast in the song. She even told him that since they had already done a couple of films together, she would be keeping their equation in mind, and wouldn't haggle for money."The source further added that Mallika charged her producer friend a fee of about Rs 11 lakh for the song.

The source reiterated that Priyadarshan, who wasn't around when the song was picturised on Mallika, was not at all impressed with the result Ratan Jain denied the story, adding that the reason why Priyan wasn't around during the shoot of this song was because he was working on another film.

"However, everything happened with his knowledge. He recommended the director of photography and even the choreographer. One can't do anything without the director's awareness," he said. While Jain refused to divulge the exact amount paid to Mallika, he denied ever having thought of casting Jiah for the song.