Guess Who: Star & Makers Of A Blockbuster Strike Lucrative Deals

Pinkvilla has published a blind item about a star & makers of a yesteryear blockbuster who struck lucrative deals with a studio.

This movie was a phenomenon when it released in the late 80’s. It made tons of money for the producer. It even strengthened his relationship with the leading lady. It is rumored that he was bedding the leading lady on the sly. He went to the extent of getting a rakhi tied by the actress to shut down rumors of an affair. But a baby bump meant that their charade was over. The producer went on to separate from his first wife & kids, to live with the superstar actress. The actress died under mysterious circumstances a few years back. Many pointed fingers at the producer husband. Even international gossip portals claim that the husband killed the actress as he wanted to marry another actress. They even claim that he has a penchant for bedding young actresses & that he has even bedded the global indian star!

The producer’s son – an actor, claimed to be distraught over his father abandoning him for the sake of the actress. But he had no issues breaking up the home of his mentor’s brother. While he used to hang out at his mentor’s house, he grew close to his mentor’s sis-in-law. Before anyone could notice, they started hooking up. It was the mentor’s sister(the actor’s ex-GF), who told her brother about him being cuckolded by the actor. The actor seems to be a chip of the old block.

Coming back to the producer, some claim that he is not as wealthy as he used to be. In fact he never fully recovered from the box office debacles in the 2000’s. That explains why he never produced a movie for his son or daughter. He sold off the rights for the blockbuster & didn’t even inform the leading man – his own brother. His last production starred his wife. He managed to recover his investment.

Blind Item

This yesteryear superhero flick has become a much talked about controversy even before its sequel has begun. While initially the producer was left out in the cold and then later his kin, now we have heard that a deal has been struck between them. A sequel was being planned but when the announcement came all hell broke less – with everybody from the director to the actors ranting and trying to prevent it from happening. Since the original film was made years ago, the director and actor have become international entities in their own right.

It was a movie that rewrote box-office history when it was made. One of the first superhero movies that were made in Bollywood, the writers created a fictional masterpiece about a savior whose entity rocked the lives of those who he saved and brought fame to everybody connected to the movie – from the actors and director to the writers, producers and music director. But years later when a top director announced a sequel of the same with another big studio (leaving out the name of the producer), while the movie goers were delighted, everybody connected to the movie were shocked.

The international director made his displeasure clear on social media but it was obvious there wasn’t much he could do. The writers in question kept quiet – and so did the producer. Little did anybody know that apparently, Mr Producer too, was cutting his own deals with the people concerned and has refused to speak to the media since the announcement came.

While the lead actor kept a dignified silence (though some claimed that he was extremely disturbed and shocked when the remake announcement came), people in Bollywood lashed out, wherever they could, on his behalf as a mark of respect for the senior actor, whom they felt had been given a raw deal by Mr Producer too. But suddenly even they turned quiet. Insiders say that the actor too has cut his own (extremely lucrative) deal with Mr Producer and the studio and hence the reason for his sudden silence. And the only person left out into the cold is the world-famous filmmaker who has come to know about it – but again there isn’t much he can do… While the famous characters in the yesteryear movie had been created by the famous writers, the director feels that he had written certain iconic scenes into the script which made the movie a blockbuster, so he deserves his creative due. He is keen to do a remake too but who is listening?

In Bollywood, it’s all the right connections at the right places for the deals to perfectly fall in place. Very soon an announcement on the sequel will be made and while most of the people associated with the remake are now happy, the director has been left out into the cold. We hear now that he is not on speaking terms with the actor and Mr Producer. Sometimes, all’s well that ends well doesn’t apply for everybody, we guess.

Our Guess

Movie: Mr. India Remake

Director: Shekhar Kapur