Guess Who: The Superstar & His Tantrums

Rajeev Masand has published a blind item about superstar & his tantrums, which cost him another big project.

We have mentioned time & again how bollywood celebs think the world revolves around them. They are god’s gift to cinema & everybody has been made by god just to look after them. The reigning box office superstar is no different. Despite several films flopping & him being a flop away from losing his box office crown, he is yet to pull his socks up. Last year was bad for him, but a top filmmaker offered him a project. As usual he started throwing his weight around. The top filmmaker, who is known to have a giant ego himself decided to kick the superstar out of the project. A short while later his latest movie – the third installment in a cop franchise released to negative reviews. Audiences felt betrayed by the shoddy screenplay & script. But instead of taking up script oriented projects, he will next been in a larger than life role – again. Looks like he has no interest in breaking away from such roles.

We are mighty impressed with the filmmakers for throwing the superstar out of the project. It was much required.

Blind Item

After an A-lister, who was in advanced talks to star in a film by a top commercial director, left the project at the eleventh hour, the filmmaker approached a superstar to step in. Very reliable sources say the superstar displayed the same behaviour that had cost him another major project only months ago.

The superstar in question asked for the film’s title to be changed. He also said the script needed to be altered in a way that only three other actors would play his siblings and not six, as in the director’s draft of the script. He insisted that he would pick the other three actors. One would be his brother-in-law, a small-time actor, the other two were actors he’d launched and who’d been unequivocally rejected by the audience in their respective previous films.

The director was not excited by the superstar’s demands. He also wanted to have a say in the music. The final straw, however, came when the film’s producer, a top filmmaker himself, called in one of the younger actors that the superstar had recommended, for a screen test. The cocky fellow asked the producer for a script before he was ready to commit to the film. That was it. The producer and the director decided there was no way they were going to put up with the tantrums of the superstar…and his posse of B-listers. They decided they’d rather not make the movie with him than make a version of the movie that was severely compromised.

Our Guess

Movie: Satte Pe Satta Remake

Producer: Rohit Shetty