Despite all the negativity and controversy surrounding the making of his Shahid Kapoor and Genelia D’Souza starrer, director Ken Ghosh has wrapped up principal shooting of his yet untitled film (no, it is not called ‘Yahoo’).
There was a breeding controversy when Jiah Khan was replaced by Genelia D’Souza while later it was also insinuated that Shahid wanted his ‘good friend’ Priyanka Chopra in the film instead of Genelia and hence was giving cold vibes to the latter at the sets during the filming.
‘Well, I wish to meet them all who were spreading such rumours because the fact remains that we have finished the film in a super fast manner’, says Ken Ghosh in an elated tone hours after announcing pack up, ‘In fact we have finished the film ahead of schedule. We had planned 35 days for the filming and we wrapped it up four days earlier by bringing the principal shooting to a close in 31 days flat.’
He denies another allegation that the film went over budget due to leading lady being replaced.
‘Nothing of that sort, we are pretty much within budget’, Ken quashes another rumour, ‘In any case filming is just a part of movie making. There is pre-production, post production and promotion planned as well. Ultimately everything does get adjusted even if we had to shoot for a few extra days.’
How about another rumour floating around that Shahid wanted certain reaction shots of his (which were earlier captured with Jiah in picture) to be re-shot as he wanted to lend further authenticity with Genelia coming into picture?
‘Some people’s intelligence level when it comes to making movies amazes me’, mocks Ken, ‘Isn’t it in any case a bare minimum requirement to re-do reaction shots as well when an entire scene has changed?’
