Aamir Khan must be the only film personality of recent times whose every single release whether as an actor, director, producer or all of the three combined brings along clashes of some kind from the Bollywood
industry people.
It is being observed right from the release of his Dil (1990) which clashed with the action thriller Ghayal then followed by Lagaan (2001) which had a mighty opposition in the partition saga
Gadar, Ek Prem Katha continued with Taare Zameen Par (2007) along with the comic caper Welcome and finally Jaane Tu Ya Jaane Na with Love Story 2050.
Firoz Nadiadwala producer of Welcome had sent feelers to Aamir to postpone the release of his directorial debut Taare Zameen Par so that it does not clash with his multi-starrer Welcome. But Aamir chose to ignore
it.
Then when just recently his produced Jaane Tu was nearing release, Love Story 2050 maker Harry Baweja went on to meet Aamir to request the postponing of his Jaane Tu so that his son, Aamir did not
budge and went ahead to clash it with Love Story 2050.
The result was there for everyone to see. While Jaane Tu captured the box office and audience's hearts, Love Story 2050 was declared the biggest dud
of 2008. Now its déjà vu again for Aamir as industry sources confirmed to us about Subhash Ghai sending feelers to Aamir to re arrange the release date of his Ghajini.
A source tells us, "Subhash Ghai's Yuvraj starring Salman Khan, Anil Kapoor, Zayed Khan and Katrina Kaif was originally planned to release in the Diwali week, on October 24th.
But then as its shooting got
postponed thanks to Salman Khan and his 10 Ka Dum shooting, the release was pushed ahead further. Ghai then planned for a release around the 2009 Republic Day.
But just a few days back Salman
allotted his dates to Ghai to shoot his remaining portions in a few weeks time now. Because of this it became possible for him to wrap the project just in time for a year end release. So keeping 26th December as the
release date, he had started his planning only to realize, Aamir's Ghajini was slated for a release on 26th December.
Yuvraj is Ghai's most ambitious film to date and after a huge flop like Kisna his reputation
is definitely at stake. He doesn't want to take any chances with his film this time as last time Madhur Bhandarkar's Page 3 released with his Kisna had completely overshadowed Kisna in all departments including the
box office run.
Now therefore he has started sending feelers to Aamir to either post pone or pre pone his Ghajini. Aamir it is learnt has still not given his reply on this matter yet and is very likely that he is not
going to budge this time around too!"
However, sources close to Ghai have confirmed to us that if Aamir doesn't go in for a shift in his Ghajini date then Yuvraj may get preponed for a November 21st release date.
Friday, August 22, 2008 13:14 IST