VICKEY LALWANI , MUMBAI MIRROR, Jan 25, 2011, 12.00am IST
Deepika Padukone's year
may be choc-a-bloc with films but she should at least hear out directors before
slamming the door on them.
A few days ago, Deepika rejected Kalpana Lajmi's film without once talking to
her, forget reading the script.
Lajmi, the director of Rudaali (1993), whose last film Chingaari, starring Sushmita Sen
hit the theatres in 2006, has been struggling for quite some time to put a
project together.
A source says, "Lajmi called up Deepika's secretary who told her in the
first call that Deepika won't do the film since she had no dates. Lajmi was
willing to wait till Deepika had dates but was shocked at her secretary's
refusal."
Two months after Lajmi spoke to Deepika's secretary, the actress texted her
saying that she can't do her film, as she is not free until 2012. "The message
was polite. But Lajmi is wondering why an actress would turn a film down even
before speaking to the director," adds the source.
When contacted, Lajmi said, "I was ready to wait till Deepika was free. It
is sad that today's heroines are busy only in image-building exercises. They
forget that it is the medium of cinema and nothing else that makes them
popular."
Though the actress stayed out of this, her manager said, "We would love to
work with a senior director like Lajmi but unfortunately, there are only 365
days in a year. We had committed our dates. Hence we decided to be upfront
about it and not keep her hanging."
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