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The Envious Filmmaker: Rajeev Masand
This week's Open Magazine column by Masand.
Not long after his latest film bombed at the box-office, a prominent filmmaker was catching up with his team over drinks at his sprawling home recently. The seasoned chap appeared defeated, and eyewitnesses suspected that his mood was a result of the film's dismal performance.
Over the course of the evening, the gathering grew more intimate. When the filmmaker was alone with his core group"his leading man, senior assistant directors and key crew members who have worked with him for years"it became clear that what was troubling him had nothing to do with the fate of the film.
The filmmaker, who has been routinely linked romantically with many of the actresses he worked with, was apparently upset that the film was now done, and with it he'd lost any opportunity to get close' to his latest leading lady. In a moment that some described as desperate, others pathetic, the gentleman in question leaned over to his leading man and allegedly whispered (loudly enough for the group to hear), "Tu ne uski li kya?" (Did you have her?) As it turns out, he was all cut up over the possibility that his lead actor had had a fling with her, but he hadn't had a chance to get close. Yeesh!
