Abu Aleeha disputes 'Mango Jutt' final cut, says he refused to sign off

Filmmaker Abu Aleeha, credited in earlier promotion as the director of Mango Jutt, has said he walked away from the project over disagreements about its final edit, days after the film's trailer dropped without his name in its visible credits.

The trailer, featuring Faysal Quraishi, Hareem Farooq and Shamoon Abbasi, was released on Wednesday. In an Instagram story on Friday, Aleeha called it "cringe-worthy" and said the film itself was worse.

Further adding, he said, Farooq's team then suggested sending the film to India for further editing. He claimed the version that came back a year later was "very bad" and cut more than half of Ayesha Jehanzeb's scenes, while Maira Bangash's role was similarly trimmed. He further described the cut as a "C-grade edit lock" and said he refused to approve it.

The film marks Farooq's first Punjabi-language project and her first big-screen appearance since 2019's Heer Maan Ja. No release date has been announced.