This week’s blind item is courtesy of Rajeev Masand. It’s not that much different as the other blind items, except that this one refers to those that we might not know at all. It involves a certain someone, whose first film hasn’t released yet. Read on to see if you can guess who Rajeev is referring to.
Rom-Com on the Sets
More or less everyone involved with his new film—from his leading man to studio executives assigned the task of marketing and releasing the movie—is allegedly cheesed off with this prominent filmmaker, who appears to be putting his heroine’s interests before that of the film. Some two years ago, when the filmmaker pitched the project as a First Blood- type action movie with a promising model-turned-actor in the central role, the studio jumped at it, convinced they could bring it in at a reasonable price.
But during the course of its making, the filmmaker, who is married with kids, allegedly grew ‘very fond’ of his leading lady (a former beauty pageant winner making her acting debut), and gradually the film’s romantic track went from a mere sub- plot to the full-fledged motive of the film. Unit members reveal that the actress was given preferential treatment over the rest of the cast and crew, and even her multiple cosmetic surgeries were billed to the film’s budget. One source insists that the actress had so much work done on herself during the course of filming that after a screening of the rough-cut, most people remarked that it appeared as if two different heroines had shot for the same film.
The leading man, too, isn’t thrilled that the filmmaker has been showering so much attention on his co-star. He is particularly peeved about the fact that the filmmaker insisted the entire unit fly economy when they were travelling for an outdoor shoot so that costs could be kept in control, but the filmmaker and heroine ended up flying business class. When confronted, the filmmaker is believed to have said he paid for their upgrades from his own pocket.
OSOP GUESSES
Leading Man: Vidyut Jamwal
Leading Lady: Pooja Chopra
Prominent Filmmaker: Vipul Shah
