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Cashed Out and Clueless - Rajeev Masand
Courtesy: Open magazine
Word going around in the corridors of a major film studio is that the billionaire industrialist owner of this studio reportedly sent a disapproving text message to the studio head after watching its latest release at a special preview organised for him at his own home. In the message, Mr Moneybags allegedly described the movie as ‘disgusting’, and is believed to have signed off with a sarcastic ‘Good luck’, indicating that he had little faith the studio would make money on the project.
His words may prove to be prophetic after all, given that the film’s dismal box-office collections appear highly unlikely to get anywhere close to the investment that the studio has made in the film. Industry watchers, however, are saying you can’t blame studio execs for gambling on this film. With an A-list star and a proven director at the helm, the film had looked like a sure bet.
This only proves what William Goldman, Oscar-winning screenwriter of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, famously said about Hollywood in his memoir is true of Bollywood too: No one knows anything!
