This week’s blind item comes from Mid Day, which is a local paper in Mumbai. From time to time they do publish blinds, but it’s hard to tell whether they are legit or not. Read on to find out.

Shot in the dark: These promising Bollywood actors have no offers

Upset over two of its actors not getting any ads, this production house called the duo for an emergency meeting

They are two of Bollywood’s most promising actors and have been recently signed on by a known production house. And while their acting skills have been appreciated, their success hasn’t translated into ad offers.

Which is why the production house representing them decided to call ‘an emergency meeting’ with the two. Sources say that when both these actors turned up for their meeting last week, they had no inkling about the agenda to be discussed. “Both of them turned up in a jovial mood but this changed soon after the meeting begun.

It was brought to their attention that despite their popularity among the youth, they haven’t got too many ad offers yet. Clearly, the production house is concerned about this,” adds the source.

Moreover, parallels were drawn between them and their contemporaries. “The actors were startled to hear this and didn’t know what to say. The production house is now going to devise a new strategy to make both these actors more saleable,” says the source.

We have another blind item for you and this time it’s by the king of blind items, Rajeev Masand. It’s quite easy for us to guess who this person in the blind is as we are up to the recent news in Bollywood. Also we have seen the trailer of his latest film that he produced himself and that has his live-in girlfriend acting opposite him. Read on to see who Rajeev is talking about.

Taking Matters Into His Own Hands

This young male actor who burst onto the scene some years ago, showing considerable promise, appears to have realised that it’s a difficult world out there. After a rough patch recently where his films didn’t work, ambitious projects got shelved, and newer ‘more promising’ actors landed movies he was being considered for, our gentleman in question is now reportedly rebuilding his career by creating opportunities for himself. Once considered the great big hope for indie cinema, the actor shone in his early films with reputed indie filmmakers. But they moved on to more saleable stars who were willing to dabble in their kind of cinema for street cred. That left this guy mostly jobless and bitter.

Smartly, he’s turned producer, has a new movie coming out opposite his actress girlfriend, and is currently involved in at least a handful of projects that he’s been developing himself. At the International Film Festival of India in Goa last month, he could be spotted in meetings with international sales agents and studio reps, working out co-productions and exploring new opportunities. At least one project between his company and a UK-based film producer was announced during the festival.

Yet it’ll take a few hits before things begin to look up for him. Abandoned by the very directors who delivered their early successes with him, he’s said to be looking for a newer batch of filmmakers whose movies he could add value to. An Indo-American film he shot for, in which he plays second lead to a Hollywood B-lister, should also release soon. Perhaps a career revival is not a distant dream after all.

OSOP Guesses
Young Male Actor: Abhay Deol