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Shahid Kapur's male order
Jiah Khan is out of Yahoo because Shahid Kapur insists on being all grown-up in the film
By Subhash K Jha
Posted On Wednesday, May 06, 2009 at 02:11:29 AM
There's so much speculation about Jiah Khan's ouster from Ken Ghosh's Yahoo that a new reason that our source has revealed amuses us. According to our source, it is Shahid's growing manliness that resulted in Jiah being ousted and Genelia D'Souza stepping in. And before you get us wrong, Shahid now insists that in all his films, he must play a man, and not the boy-next-door he's been all this while. Our source says, "Yahoo was originally about Shahid playing a struggling dancer and a bunch of kids supporting him. The focus was on Shahid's interaction with the kids. But later they realised that it wasn't Shahid's cup of tea to work with children. His film Vah! Life Ho Toh Aisi (2005) flopped terribly at the box-office and his next, Ahmed Khan's Paathshala also involves some child actors." "And getting out of this boyish mould is what Shahid is looking at right now. With Kaminay opposite Priyanka Chopra waiting for release, Shahid wants to ensure that he doesn't regress into the boy bracket. Besides, the way Yahoo was shaping up, it only accentuated Shahid's boyish traits and his romance with Jiah came out immaturely," our source adds. Once the filmmakers decided to rework Shahid's character, it was imperative to get a new heroine. 'They needed someone with a vivacious personality, as Shahid's character is underplayed. Genelia fits the bill perfectly," says our source. Laughs Ken, "Absolutely no offence meant to Jiah. The script has been revised rather drastically and so the personality of the characters has changed." Taking about the song that celebrated American choreographer Marty Kudelka has set for Yahoo, Ken says, "We've shot the song in such a way that Jiah's bit will be easily edited out. Jiah has hardly contributed to the song."
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