We have another blind item for you this week and this time it’s from Rajeev Masand. Lately, Rajeev has been posting not so exciting blinds, but maybe the one below will look interesting after a few weeks of bland blind items. Keeping aside the judgement of the blind item, it’s quite an interesting situation that happened between the people in the blinds. Check it out below and see if you can figure out who this blind is referring to. If not, check our guesses below.

 

Bollywood Blind Item

 

 

Two Filmmakers in the Dumps

 

A prominent maker of mostly art-house films has decided he will keep a low profile these days, particularly in the media. No interviews, no television appearances, limited interactions on social media too. Not surprisingly, he’s still reeling from the failure of his ambitious passion project from earlier this year. However, his disappointment and disillusionment isn’t reserved for the fourth estate alone: he’s no less upset with film industry folk who, he is convinced, revelled in his film’s abysmal performance. He has specifically pointed out the example of one well-known director “the maker of lengthy period films” who made it a point to seek him out after watching his film so he could give him a piece of his mind. He says the filmmaker told him flat out that he was “thrilled” that he’d delivered a turkey and insisted that others in the film trade were too. “You needed to be brought down a few notches. You’d become too big for your boots,” the director proceeded to add. He says the filmmaker further pulled him up for his tendency to speak out brazenly against Bollywood’s sacred cows’ in the past, and assured him that his fall was imminent.

Ironically, the churlish filmmaker himself had a massive fall from grace when his last two films flopped miserably, thereby ending a winning streak at the box-office. He’s currently in production on another major project with a popular A-lister in the lead. You think he’d pay a little more attention to what they say about those who live in glass houses…but no. Hell, who listens to anything or anyone in Bollywood?

 

OSOP Guesses

A Prominent Maker: Anurag Kashyap

Ambitious Passion Project: Bombay Velvet

Well-Known Director – Ashutosh Gowariker

Upcoming Movie – Mohenjo Daro

Popular A-Lister – Hrithik Roshan