Actress booted out of her forthcoming new film. Her item number from Priyadarshan's 'Tezz' edited out
Often in Bollywood, item numbers have proved to be quite beneficial to an actress’ career.
However, for Mallika Sherawat, it proved to be on the contrary. After learning that her dance number in Priyadarshan’s next is very thanda, the makers of her upcoming film with Sachiin Joshi have simply decided to do away together with her. That too, only a month before the shoot starts.
On top of that, we also hear that the thing number that spelled doom for Mallika has actually been edited out from the general cut of Priyan’s film.
A well-placed industry source tells us that the producers of the Sachiin Joshi film felt that the actress had did not cast any magic along with her moves in her item song within the Priyadarshan action thriller.
“When the primary look of the song Laila was out, it didn’t appear to be Mallika had done anything extraordinary. Nobody is talking about her song. If her presence in a song can’t help hype it, expecting a movie to generate buzz on her name could be expecting an excessive amount of. So she have been dropped, ” explains our source.
Mallika’s high-handed attitude may be apparently to be blamed.
Our source adds, “Even Sachiin is mincing no words when telling people how difficult Mallika is. He’s sparing no information about her tantrums.” Mallika’s spokesperson says, “She was verbally committed to the film but was awaiting the overall script. But that didn’t come on time. So she opted out.”
Caught and dropped?
Regarding her item number being removed, a well-placed source related to the film tells us that when a sequence of discussions between producer Ratan Jain and director Priyadarshan, the general decision was taken. Interestingly, earlier while Jain had insisted on retaining the track, Priyan wanted it out.
“Mallika’s Laila song doesn’t feature within the final copy of the film, ” revealed our source, adding, “Instead of wasting money promoting it, Ratanji thought it might be better to spend it at the talkie promos and action.” Priyadarshan told HitList, “The final decision is yet to be taken.” Producer Ratan Jain maintains, “I am retaining the song.”
Courtesy: Mid-Day.com
