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Mahesh Bhatts protege makes unscheduled debut

Hungama Feed | BySubhash K. Jha
May 08, 2012 11:24 AM IST

If you saw the tall amiable rookie cop who accompanied Randeep Hooda in the initial scenes of Jannat 2 and then vanished, you might want to know that he is Mahesh Bhatt's latest prot?g? Imran Zahid.Imran played the shoe-throwing journalist Muntadhar Al-Zaidi in Mahesh Bhatt's stage

If you saw the tall amiable rookie cop who accompanied Randeep Hooda in the initial scenes of

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and then vanished, you might want to know that he is Mahesh Bhatt's latest prot?g? Imran Zahid.

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Imran played the shoe-throwing journalist Muntadhar Al-Zaidi in Mahesh Bhatt's stage adaptation

. He is now being launched as one of the leading men in

. Imran is also the lead in Mahesh Bhatt's

, a bio-pic on the slain Jawaharlal Nehru University student leader Chandrashekhar Prasad.



With such lofty plans up his sleeves, one was shocked to see Imran making a 'guest' appearance in two fleeting shots with Randeep Hooda and Brijendra Kala. Even more shocking is the fact that Imran himself was shocked to see himself in

!



The revised plan, after Imran's role in

did not shape up as one of the leads, was to scrap his role completely and re-launch the actor in the Bhatts'

. That's the way Subhash Ghai had dealt with Madhuri Dixit's career. After he shot a dance sequence with her in

and felt she had the potential to become a full-fledged leading lady, he scrapped the dance and launched her in

.



Imran had been promised that his part would be completely scrapped and re-shot with another actor.



Shell-shocked after seeing himself unannounced on screen, Imran blurted out, "I can't believe I saw myself in

. I was not meant to be part of it. I had left the film after the first schedule. My part was taken by an actor called Rajinder, the cop who gets shot at the end. I don't know why the director Kunal Deshmukh decided to keep my shots."



Strangely days before the release of

, Mahesh Bhatt had announced on a micro-blogging site that Imran would be making his debut not with

but

.



Says Imran, "Honestly I'm in shock. It was officially decided that I won't be part of

. The ethical thing to do would have been to remove my scenes completely and re-shoot with my replacement."



Imran admits this two-bit appearance could damage his career.



. It can't be undone, so no point crying over it. It was Mahesh Bhatt saab's decision that I opt out of

. He thought I didn't fit in. Maybe they were unable to re-shoot all my scenes."



When asked about Imran Zahid unceremonious, unannounced and uncredited debut in

director Kunal Deshmukh said, "Imran and I decided to part ways because his role didn't shape up well. I couldn't re-shoot the scenes with Imran that were shot on the ISBT Bridge and in Pahadganj in Delhi. Those were tough location to shoot in. And we couldn't obtain permission again."

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