Gujral, a US-based director of Indian origin, claims that Rao interfered in her casting decisions by recommending his girlfriend Patralekha for a singer's role in her project, despite the same being offered to singer-turned-actor Saru Maini.When Gujral didn't relent to Rao's choice, things reportedly turned sour and led to Rao distancing himself from 5 Weddings, a film made on a shoe-string budget of Rs35 million (Dh1.7 million) and which is now in the UAE. "Rajkumar has a girlfriend who's also an actor. And said to me that she's really good since he has worked on a couple of films with her. But I had already cast someone in that particular role and I didn't want to cast somebody else... He would have liked it if I had cast his girlfriend... It started with that. He would have liked it if I had done something based on what he said," Gujral told Gulf News tabloid!.