Today blind item comes from Rajeev Masand for Open magazine. It’s a silly blind item, not the content, but the people and reasons involved are just silly. Read on to see if you can guess who Rajeev is talking about here.
Studio Spendthrift
According to the grapevine, a prominent studio head is peeved with a director whose next film this studio will release. Turns out the filmmaker has been deflecting attention from the fact that his latest film has gone over budget by giving examples of other as-yet-unreleased films whose budgets also bloated considerably during production. One among these, an example the filmmaker has cited frequently, is the remake of a Hollywood film starring two heartthrob stars. That film, incidentally, will also be released by the same studio, and the honcho is not pleased that the director repeatedly brings it up.
Both movies are important projects for the studio in question, and the big-shot exec would rather that the industry discuss something other than the money riding on these two. But how to get others to lay off his expensive mistakes when one of his own directors won’t give up the habit first?
OSOP Guess
Prominent Studio Head: Fox
Filmmaker: Anurag Kashyap
Next Film: Bombay Velvet
Remake of a Hollywood Film: Bang Bang
Two Heartthrob Stars: Katrina Kaif and Hrithik Roshan