Guess Who: This Actor Won’t Promote His Next Movie

Pinkvilla has published a blind item about an actor who won’t promote his next movie which will be releasing directly on a streaming platform.

We had earlier mentioned how Bollywood celebs are a self-centered lot. They are least bothered about the well-being of the producer or anybody else who is involved in the filmmaking process. All they care about is their stardom & their money. Ensuring that the producer recoups the money invested is not on their agenda.

There have been rumors about this actor’s arrogance lately. While we dismissed them earlier, we can’t do it this time around. Considering the current circumstances, the leading man needs to stand by the producer when there is no clarity about when the theatres will reopen. Even if they do reopen how will the seating arrangements be? How may would be comfortable with going to a theatre? Is the actor ready to take a pay cut?

The actor seems to have forgotten that the director of this movie was the one who gave him a break in Bollywood. Standing by his side is the least he can do. Indeed, he should have been kept in the loop, but not promoting the movie is not justified.

Blind Item

The Coronavirus outbreak has changed a lot of ways in which the industry functions. But along with the way the film functions, it has also clearly changed a lot of equations within the film industry. Few weeks ago, there was a huge fallout between a top superstar and the producer of his next, after the latter sent out some tweets against a political party who the star swears by. Last heard, they’re still not on talking terms. Now, a similar thing has happened with another much younger actor and a director.

The film was in talks for a theatrical release but once the situation worsened, the filmmaker reached out to a few digital heads and sold his film to them for a good price. But everything he did was done, without proper knowledge of the team. The Gen-Y star was against the digital release of his next and expressed his displeasure over the decision before a formal announcement was being made. But our director saab was adamant and given that it’s a small film, he knew the price it was fetching currently for a premiere online, wouldn’t be possible once theatres open. And it also meant a longer wait since everything is extremely uncertain at this point.

When he informed the team about his decision to go ahead, since he’s also one of the producers of the film, it received a big thumbs down from the actor, who he had introduced in films. The team got them all together to make a few clips but the discomfort was evident even then. And now, our hero who’s delivered a few quick successes and is flying high, told his management team that he wouldn’t indulge in any promotions for the film. Now, the OTT platform is running helter-skelter to convince the actor but to no avail. It now needs to be seen if the actor will finally do a few interactions, just for the sake of professionalism or let his ego take over!

Our Guess

Actor: Ayushmann Khurana

Movie: Gulabo Sitabo

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