Imran shown door, Ranbir welcomed
2012-03-19, By FOI Editorial
Bollywood's sweetest chocolate boy Imran Khan promoting a brand of chocolates. It couldn't get better than this, right? Well, he was approached by a company to promote their chocolates, but was later crossed out. Why, you wonder? That's because the brand managers didn't account for Imran's attitude problems and his high-handed behaviour.
Are you also as shocked as we were? Then here's the whole news. Imran, who has hitherto always come across as a professional actor, apparently demanded exorbitant amounts of money for doing the advertisement campaign, and then also started putting them off with his demands. With the end result that they decided to sack him and get Ranbir Kapoor instead.
"The company was paying Imran much more than his market fee. But despite that, he kept interfering in the ad's shoot incessantly. He was behaving like his uncle Aamir Khan demanding perfection and discussing even the minutest of details that weren't even planned yet," says a source.
When the team got so irked that they couldn't cope with Imran's unreasonable demands, they roped in another chocolate boy Ranbir Kapoor to replace Imran. "Ranbir is a youth icon and he fits the theme. Not only is he very popular, he is also very professional," says a source from the marketing team of the chocolate company.
We wonder if that's a compliment to Ranbir or an insult to Imran…!
Courtesy: FilmsofIndia.com
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