Guess Who: Relationship Between Two Celebs Has Soured

Rajeev Masand has published a blind item in Open The Magazine about the relationship between two celebs souring, after the actor walked out of the movie.

We wonder why this is even a blind item. Nothing scandalous here at all.They could have very well published the names of the celebs. But can’t blame Rajeev. The pressure of coming up with an explosive blind item must have gotten to him. Apart from not being scandalous, this blind item is on expected lines. It is public knowledge how this actor who is reeling from back to back flops developed cold feet & walked out of a movie. Another gossip columnist mentioned how his director daddy too had a role in him exiting the project. But now this blind item claims that it was the director who called off the project.

Frankly, we think the director shouldn’t take it personally. After all every star is responsible for his/her career. Bollywood is an industry where careers can be made or broken every Friday.

The role may be offered to another young actor. The same one who keeps getting linked to a heroine. Their PR teams & mentor are portraying them to be an on again, off again couple. But we doubt whether this couple is genuine.

Blind Item

According to the grapevine, an up-and-coming filmmaker is still bristling from the apparent lack of confidence that his friend (and actor of two films) recently demonstrated. After suggesting a dozen-odd changes to a script he had originally claimed to love, the actor reportedly got cold feet and began to make excuses to delay the film. In response, the director called off the project. Insiders say the relationship between the men has soured.

But the director was not going to sit on his hands. In a matter of days, he was able to snag another actor (a rising star that you might consider competition to his friend) to work with him. It isn’t clear yet if they’ll make the same film he was trying to get off the ground with his friend, but insiders say the director had no interest in spending the next six months banging out a new script that may not excite the new actor. He was keen to get on the floor at the soonest.

This entire episode raises a question: what happens to the successful franchise that the director and his actor friend established earlier? Those in the know say a third film is imminent but probably won’t happen anytime soon. Both the filmmaker and the actor know the value of that franchise and will not let ego come in the way of a more-or-less sureshot hit. But right now they’d rather focus on other projects. A franchise is a good thing to fall back on when the chips are down—thankfully, things are nowhere near that bad at the moment.

Our Guess

Filmmaker: Shashank Khaitan

Franchise: Humpty Sharma/Badrinath Ki Dulhania