John, Bipasha and Katrina’s exit from Karan Johar ad
April 29, 2009 by Arun
Filed under Bipasha Basu, John Abraham, Katrina Kaif
It was one casting coup waiting to happen but that hasn’t been the case to be. For the ‘Vote Aapke Haath Mein Hai’ campaign produced by Karan Johar for Dharma Productions, John Abraham, Bipasha Basu and Katrina Kaif were the chosen ones (amongst a dozen odd other youth icons) to participate in a specially created video.
However, at the last moment, the trio couldn’t be a part of the video for different reasons and director Tarun Mansukhani had to contend with other actors.
“That’s true. Earlier on John Abraham and Bipasha Basu were all set to be a part of this video that has been created to spread awareness around voting for our Government this election season.
Even Katrina Kaif was finalised but in the final scheme of things, we had to shoot the video without the three of them. Such a pity”, exclaims Tarun Mansukhani who has made a drastic shift from a colourful ‘Dostana’ to his recent campaign that has been shot in all Black & White.
The video now stars Abhishek Bachchan, Ranbir Kapoor, Shahid Kapoor, Imran Khan, Priyanka Chopra, Deepika Padukone, Asin, Ritiesh Deshmukh, Farhan Akhtar, Sonam Kapoor and Karan Johar himself.
So what really went wrong? What was the real reason behind John, Bipasha and Katrina opting out of ‘Vote Aapke Haath Mein Hai’ which is written by Niranjan Iyengar, the man who has written dialogues Karan Johar films like ‘Kal Ho Naa Ho’ and ‘Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna’?
Jism 2 coming Soon
December 22, 2008 by Arun
Filed under Bipasha Basu, John Abraham
Five years after Bipasha Basu and John Abraham scorched the screen in “Jism”, Shagufta Rafique, screenwriter for the much-hyped sequel to the film, says part two will be about infidelity and will launch three new faces with great bodies.
“Since ‘Jism’ was all about the human body and keeping up with the tradition of Vishesh Films’ launching new talent, we’ll take a completely new and absolutely raw cast for ‘Jism 2′. We’ll launch three new faces and three great bodies in three newcomers in the film, ” Rafique told over phone from Mumbai.
Released in 2003, “Jism” was an unexpected box office success and the launch vehicle of Bollywood heartthrob John. The film gave a boost to John and Bipasha’s careers and both got tagged as sex symbols.
While the first was written by Mahesh Bhatt, “Jism 2″ is being written by Rafique, who holds to her credit films like “Woh Lamhe”, “Awarapan” and box office dud “Dhokha”.
Asked about the plot of “Jism 2″, she said: “Like the previous ‘Jism’, part two will concentrate on the issue of infidelity and it will be a murder mystery. I have already started working on the film and Pooja (Bhatt) will be directing it.”
