Chennai: Actress Shruti Haasan, who was approached for Neeraj Vora's "Hera Pheri 3", could not be part of the project due to her current commitments, her spokesperson said.

"Shruti Haasan was approached for 'Hera Pheri 3', but due to her date commitments to her two southern films and her soon to be announced Hindi project, she could not go through with it. She does hope to work with Abhishek Bachchan in the future," Shruti's spokesperson told IANS.

The third part in the "Hera Pheri" franchise also stars Paresh Rawal, Suniel Shetty, John Abraham, Abhishek Bachchan, Esha Gupta and Neha Sharma.

Shruti's upcoming line-up of films include Nishikant Kamat's "Rocky Handsome" and Tigmanshu Dhulia "Yaara" in Hindi, "Puli" opposite Vijay, "Vedalam" opposite Ajith and "Singam 3" opposite Suriya in Tamil.