Shahid Kapoor lost Maneesh Sharma's next project after engaged on the script with the director for 6 months. It was a disappointing dead end. The general blow came suddenly. The remake of the Tom Cruise starrer Knight & Day which director Siddharth Anand had planned almost to culmination with Shahid Kapoor has now gone to Hrithik Roshan.
And Shahid whose fan base remains miraculously uneroded despite the new setbacks, has decided to do a little drastic career-rethink.
We hear from reliable sources that the young dedicated actor would now be following Salman Khan's pattern of career management.
In the approaching months, Shahid Kapoor won't be seen in public much. The actor, whose recent films Mausam, Teri Meri Kahani have underperformed, has decided to take a protracted hard take a look at his career. And the effects are already showing.
In addition, Shahid has also decided to adopt a wholly new solution to new projects.
Says a source with regards to Shahid, "OVER THE PAST twelve months Shahid has turned down 15 projects, among them were Mira Nair's The Reluctant Fundamentalist and Prakash Jha's Chakravyuh. He insisted on a whole hard-bound script from every filmmaker, big or small. This naturally didn't go down well with the likes of Jha and Nair who've worked with the most important names in Bollywood and abroad, with no need to commit a whole hard-bound script to the actor. Only Aamir Khan used to demand a hard-bound script and he would even insist on signing every page of the script in order that nothing was changed. That rigid system of working now not works for any actor, not even Aamir."
The buzz surrounding Shahid's revamp is that the actor has decided to follow Salman's career-mould as opposed to Aamir's.
We hear Shahid can be much more flexible and relaxed in his solution to films and roles.
"Raj Kumar Santoshi's new film Phata Poster Nikla Hero is the primary film Shahid has signed without demanding an entire script. He next goes into Prabhu Dheva's Namak where he must completely re-define his physique and body language to do his full-fledged action role. Shahid would phase out his public appearances and can be seen very selectively until Santoshi's and Prabhu Dheva's films are ready. Until then he has decided to stick as much out of the limelight as possible."
Shahid remained unavailable for comment.
