Not stopping at just creating a film in keeping with Deepika Padukone and her former beau Nihar Pandya, now filmmaker Prashant Chadha desires to get more real. By calling his protagonists Nihar and Deepika! And he's hoping to not get sued for it.
The director explains, "IT IS THE only way we will be able to retain and project the authentic love story. Otherwise it might be just another love story. But we do not wish to get sued."
So, the director has now asked his legal advisors to seem into it.
He says, "WE DO NOT wish to portray Nihar as a victim and Deepika because the wrongdoer. Ideally we'd want her to play herself. But that seems unlikely."
In likelihood of a legal suit from Deepika's ends, Chadha has already devised the way to counter it. He's banking at the Hollywood flick 500 Days Of Summer to bail him out.
He points out, "There are some really uncanny similarities between my film and the Hollywood movie.
I've formatted the screenplay similarly. We can trip in time. Nihar's story will begin with him meeting the woman (Deepika) in acting class.
And then we can go into various episodes but not necessarily within the sequence that they really happened. The likeness to the Hollywood film has given us a roomy reference point."
Same-same?
Chadha adds, "FOR MANY WHO think Nihar and that i are using his real-life story for publicity my question is - didn't Mahesh Bhatt make magnificent movies out of his own and others' personal lives? Did he take Parveen Babi's permission before making Arth?"
Reaction from Deepika's camp Anirban Blah, the pinnacle of the fame management company that handles Deepika's work says, "Normally Deepika is an excessively non-interfering person. She doesn't react unless pushed really hard. So I'd think the film wouldn't get her to react unless it was deeply offensive."
In 500 Days Of Summer, protagonist Tom (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) looks back on his year-long romance with Summer (Zooey Deschanel) before she unceremoniously dumped him.
Real romances we wish to see on screenSalman-Ash-Vivek: Few love stories include as much action and drama as this one. Ash's ex-boyfriend and her then beau had the fight of a life-time apparently because Salman wanted Vivek out of her life. Eventually Ash chose none and opted for Bachchan Junior. Now if that does not make for an excellent climax sequence, we do not know what will.
Ranbir-Deepika-Katrina: Katrina was apparently some of the reasons the lovebirds Ranbir and Deepika called it quits. Deepika declared him a cheating boyfriend on national television. Even supposing love fails, stories about infidelity always sell.
Katrina-Salman: This one is a more dramatic and no more corny version of Kuch Kuch Hota Hai where friends turned lovers and are actually back to being friends. The Katrina-Salman story won't stand as an affidavit to like lasting forever, nevertheless it no less than reinstates your faith in friendship.
Shahid- Kareena: A four-year-long relationship, a seemingly amicable break-up and an MMS for effect and eyeballs - the Shahid-Kareena love affair promises enough fodder for an exhilarating love story with a sad end where the woman finds her prince, however the guy finally ends up a kamina in additional ways than one.
John-Bipasha: Both models-turned-actors, madly in love &but problems arose where the fellow was apparently commitment phobic and the lady too hesitant to stroll out. Add the John-dumps-Bipasha-for-a-girl-in-his-gym angle, and you've got a blockbuster.
Courtesy: Mid-Day.com
