I think it's nice to see that loyalty still has some pull over selfish professional interest. Not that Ranveer and Deepika won't gain anything from BM, especially if it's a hit like RL, but I think it's admirable that they felt they owed SLB their participation. Would have been easier to ditch him with a 'been there, done that, KJO is a big producer' attitude but they didn't.
Ranveer will be fine. Dharma hasn't exactly helped him out in his career so far, and Karan wouldn't even have been interested in signing Ranveer if it wasn't for his recent successes. Which he managed without KJO. Not seeing how Karan is going to suddenly impact his career and do damage to him or Deepika. Besides, if Karan was so set on Ranveer, why were there rumours of Aamir being approached? That was a deliberate leak, dutifully published by Jitesh Pillai, aka Karan Johar's lackey. He was playing games till the end, any wonder RS took off for a sure thing?
But Masand's story isn't really adding up either. How is Shuddhi supposed to start in June, when RS would have been in the throes of shooting for DDD? In Europe? Excel has already come out and said RS has allotted the most dates of all the cast members in the film, wonder how he'd have been flying back and forth to shoot both films. A June start doesn't seem like it would have worked for Deepika either, Window Seat and Piku are both supposed to start in July. So she would have been juggling THREE demanding films? Even super organised DP can't manage that surely.
Some of the earlier articles had Shuddhi starting in November and finishing up in February, meaning 120 days of shooting. There were suggestions SLB was willing to wait for DP (and presumably RS) to finish Shuddhi and then start shooting BM in March. That timetable made sense for both DP and RS, who would have been done with DDD, Piku and WS respectively, and would have been why they signed up for both movies. Somewhere along the line, that changed, likely Shuddhi shooting being brought forward, complicating things tremendously for them both. Choosing BM might then just have simply boiled down to not just the SLB factor, but also not killing themselves doing double/triple shifts on all the other movies they'd committed to.
In any event, excited to see all three (RS/DP/PC) and SLB at the helm. I think it's going to be a majestic film.
Edited by TuesdaysChild - 11 years ago
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