Like Deepika Padukone's 'Fast and Furious 7', the Hollywood films that never happened
Presenting Bollywood missed trysts with H-Town.
So are you one of those people who believed that Deepika Padukone had signed Fast and Furious 7? Really, how many times have we witnessed this Hollywood hoax before? First the actor’s publicist leaks the news to some publication that he/she is being considered.
Then follows stories of how they are in talks and contract has to be signed. And finally reports of how the actress is too busy with other commitments to do the film are fed to the tabloids. How gullible can you be... For every Shabana Azmi, Om Puri and Irrfan Khan, who actually worked with A-listers in Hollywood, there is a Saif Ali Khan, a Deepika Padukone and an Anushka Sharma who couldn’t/wouldn’t/didn’t.
Why do Indian actors open their mouths so enthusiastically whenever it comes to a Hollywood project...only to look red-faced when the project turns out to be a non-starter?
Deepika Padukone in Fast & Furious
Saif Ali Khan-Natalie Portman
Anushka Sharma Steven Spielberg
Aishwarya Rai Michael Douglas
Aishwarya Rai Bachchan-Will SmithThis one really and truly would’ve happened. Will Smith was most keen that Ms Rai play the lead with him in John Hancock. In fact, he personally invited her after bathing her in compliments. But at that time Aishwarya was busy looking after Abhishek’s critically-ill grandmother. Exemplary no? In a country where stars are known to slavishly jump through the hoop even when Hollywood doesn’t even beckon!