Defiant Imran lashes out accuses filmmaker Rahul Rawail of using fiancee Avantika for publicity.
Imran Khan has put his foot in his mouth. And it’s got to do with the TOI story (June 7) about how his fiancee Avantika Malik ripped apart Ranbir Kapoor’s Raajneeti in a suburban theatre in the presence of filmmaker Rahul Rawail.
The Bollywood director, who was sitting behind Avantika for the screening, had posted his “lousy experience” on a social networking site and then expressed his annoyance to BT. Now Imran has lashed back in a city newspaper at Rahul and said the reputed filmmaker wanted publicity and had therefore accused Avantika of disturbing the theatre with her mocking remarks of his arch-rival’s film.
Imran is justified in defending his woman. However, to dismiss something that happened in a theatre with a Friday crowd (including Farah Khan) as “nothing of the sort happened’’, is silly. Ideally, what Imran should have suggested to his fiancée was that she apologise to Rahul whose peace she disturbed during the film and move on. Instead, he ridicules the incident by saying “Ranbir and I make for a good story” while denying there is any hostility between them and suggesting that Rahul had done this to get his name on the front page of BT. Which, for a young star with just one hit (Jaane Tu... Ya Jaane Na) and two duds (Kidnap and Luck) to his name, is rather pompous and unbecoming.
Incidentally, Rahul Rawail started his career with the brilliant hit Love Story (1981) and went on to prove his mettle with box office grossers like Betaab (1983), the cult classic Arjun (1985), the thought-provoking Dacait and Anjaam (1994) to name just a few films. True, he has now reached the nadir of his creativity and given way to making embarrassing films. But his net worth as far as Bollywood cinema goes, is worth a lot more than what Imran is worth. And there is no question of him using Imran and Avantika to get media mileage.
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