If you saw the tall amiable rookie cop who accompanied Randeep Hooda within the initial scenes of Jannat 2 after which vanished, you need to know that he's Mahesh Bhatt’s latest protégé Imran Zahid.
Imran played the shoe-throwing journalist Muntadhar Al-Zaidi in Mahesh Bhatt’s stage adaptation The Last Salute. He's now being launched as probably the most leading men in Jism 2.
Imran may be the lead in in Mahesh Bhatt’s Chandu, a bio-pic at the slain Jawaharlal Nehru Unversity student leader Chandrashekhar Prasad.
With such lofty plans up his sleeves one was shocked to look Imran creating a ‘gust’ appearance in two fleeting shots with Randeep Hooda and Brijendra Kala.
Even more shocking is the truth that Imran himself was shocked to peer himself in Jannat 2!!!
The revised plan after Imran’s role in Jannat 2 didn't shape up as one of the vital leads was to scrap his role completely and re-launch the actor within the Bhatts’ Jism.
That’s the best way Subhash Ghai had handled Madhuri Dixit’s career. After he shot a dance sequence together with her in Karm and felt she had the prospective to become a full-fledged leading lady, he scrapped the dance and launched her in Uttar Dakshin.
Imran were promised that his part could be completely scrapped and re-shot with another actor.
Shell-shocked after seeing himself unannounced on screen Imran blurted out, “I can’t believe I saw myself in Jannat 2. I USED TO BE not meant to join it. I had left the film after the primary schedule. My part was taken by an actor called Rajinder, the cop who gets shot on the end. I don’t know why the director Kunal Deshmukh decided to maintain my shots. ”
Says Imran, “Honestly I’m in shock. It was officially decided that I won’t be a part of Jannat 2. The moral thing to do would was to take away my scenes completely and re-shoot with my replacement. ”
Imran admits this two-bit appearance could damage his career.
“Magara ab jo ho gaya so ho gaya. It can’ be undone, so no point crying over it. It was Mahesh Bhatt Saab’s decision that I opt out of Jannat 2. He thought I didn’t slot in. Maybe they were unable to re-shoot all my scenes. ”
When asked about Imran Zahid unceremonious, unannounced and uncredited debut in Jannat 2 director Kunal Deshmukh said, “Imran and that i decided to part ways because his role didn’t shape up well. I couldn’t re- shoot the scenes with Imran that were shot at the ISBT bridge and in Pahadganj in Delhi. Those were tough location to shoot in. And we couldn’t obtain permission again. ”
