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Everyone knows Jackie's on remote control: Mukesh Bhatt
Jacqueline Fernandez is acquiring a reputation for losing films faster than she is signing them - apparently on her boyfriend and director Sajid Khan's advice. She recently walked out of Krissh 3.
On Monday morning, she was dropped from Vikram Bhatt's Raaz 3 and replaced by newcomer Esha Gupta (who is debuting in Jannat 2 this year).
Jackie was signed for Raaz 3 post the release of Murder 2. She was aware that she had to wear revealing clothes in the film. Apart from donning bikinis and sexy outfits, Jackie was to be given a glamorous makeover as the Bhatts wanted to project her as the next sex symbol after Bipasha Basu (who incidentally plays Jackie's older sister in the film).
With the shoot starting this month, Jackie even signed a contract with the Bhatts to go sexy for the part. However, an insider says, "She kept going back and forth on the outfits for several weeks. The hemlines kept getting longer and the necklines higher. Last week, Jackie communicated to the Bhatts that she wasn't willing to wear revealing outfits. Apparently, Sajid has advised her against doing the role. He told her it was time to stop doing sleazy B-grade roles if she wanted to become an A-list actress. The Bhatts had had enough of Jackie's nakhras by this time, and decided to drop her instantly. On Monday morning, they communicated the same to her."
When we quiz her, Jackie confirms, "I'm not a part of Raaz 3 anymore. The decision was mutual and we parted amicably."
However, producer Mukesh Bhatt rants, "I don't know what success has done to Jacqueline; she can't handle it. She'd heard the script well in advance, but for reasons best known to her, she backtracked. If she only wants to play the innocent virgin, all the best to her. Filmmakers are not going to sign Jacqueline to wear a sari! She didn't want to do certain things so we replaced her with Esha."
As for Sajid's involvement in all of this, Bhatt adds, "Everyone knows she's on remote control. Only time will tell who made a blunder - us or Jackie."
On Monday morning, she was dropped from Vikram Bhatt's Raaz 3 and replaced by newcomer Esha Gupta (who is debuting in Jannat 2 this year).
Jackie was signed for Raaz 3 post the release of Murder 2. She was aware that she had to wear revealing clothes in the film. Apart from donning bikinis and sexy outfits, Jackie was to be given a glamorous makeover as the Bhatts wanted to project her as the next sex symbol after Bipasha Basu (who incidentally plays Jackie's older sister in the film).
With the shoot starting this month, Jackie even signed a contract with the Bhatts to go sexy for the part. However, an insider says, "She kept going back and forth on the outfits for several weeks. The hemlines kept getting longer and the necklines higher. Last week, Jackie communicated to the Bhatts that she wasn't willing to wear revealing outfits. Apparently, Sajid has advised her against doing the role. He told her it was time to stop doing sleazy B-grade roles if she wanted to become an A-list actress. The Bhatts had had enough of Jackie's nakhras by this time, and decided to drop her instantly. On Monday morning, they communicated the same to her."
When we quiz her, Jackie confirms, "I'm not a part of Raaz 3 anymore. The decision was mutual and we parted amicably."
However, producer Mukesh Bhatt rants, "I don't know what success has done to Jacqueline; she can't handle it. She'd heard the script well in advance, but for reasons best known to her, she backtracked. If she only wants to play the innocent virgin, all the best to her. Filmmakers are not going to sign Jacqueline to wear a sari! She didn't want to do certain things so we replaced her with Esha."
As for Sajid's involvement in all of this, Bhatt adds, "Everyone knows she's on remote control. Only time will tell who made a blunder - us or Jackie."
Jacqueline does a hattrick
After Krrish 3 and Race 2, she has now opted out ofRaaz 3. Reason? She does not want to expose or do steamy scenes
Kunal M Shah [email protected]
We told you how she lost out on Krrish 3 because she refused to lock lips with Hrithik Roshan, later opting out of Race 2 because she was concerned with overexposure.
Now we hear Jacqueline Fernandez is out of Mahesh and Mukesh Bhatt's much talked about Raaz 3, which goes on the floor in just 10 days' time. Predictably, she was uncomfortable about the costumes in the film and did not want to be seen in revealing clothes. Strangely enough, this is the same Jacqueline who made a huge impact with the Bhatts' runaway hit Murder 2, where she seemed to have no problems donning scant clothes.
When contacted, producer Mahesh Bhatt told Mumbai Mirror, "We as a production house make films purely on the basis of the director's vision. Now for some reason when an actor has issues about what to wear in the film, we leave it to the director and given a choice go by what the director has in mind."
How come Jacqueline had no issues with the costumes in Murder 2, we ask. Mahesh replies, "That's the beauty of it. We are yet to find the replacement, as Raaz 3 goes on the floors on January 27, 2012. Destiny too plays an important role. When we were making Raaz, Lisa Ray had a similar issue and Bipasha replaced her and went on to became a huge star. Let's hope that's what happens with the actress who replaces Jacqueline."
For her part, Jacqueline said, "Yes I am no longer a part of Raaz 3. However we have come to a mutual understanding and agreed to part ways." Probed about her concern over the costumes, we were told, "Yes, there were certain concerns and I wasn't comfortable and I told them. But they weren't in a situation to make changes which is why I had to opt out of the film."
Well, it's a curious case indeed that at a time when almost all her contemporaries think nothing of shedding their clothes to net big-ticket films, Jacqueline chooses to do just the opposite, losing out on plum offers in the bargain. Whether she is really a throwback in an age of showing more skin or is her fianc filmmaker Sajid Khan, who has been known to come in the way of her doing steamy scenes, to blame, we don't know'
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