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EXCLUSIVE: Deepika Padukone and Ranveer Singh to promote Padmavati on Salman Khan’s Bigg Boss 11 SEPARATELY
While Shahid Kapoor won’t come at all on the show this time.
In the wake of the recent controversies that have arisen this week on Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s Padmavati, we have heard that the filmmaker and his marketing team have decided that Deepika Padukone and Ranveer Singh won’t be promoting the film together on Salman Khan’s Big Boss 11. Not just that, while Deepika and her on-screen husband Maha Rawal Ratan Singh aka Shahid Kapoor were to make a joint appearance on the show, he has opted out completely as he wants to promote it solo on other shows.
Says a source, “Deepika is going on BB11 alone to promote Padmavati and so will Ranveer go on his own, separately but Shahid is not going on Salman’s show at all. The actress will first make an appearance on the show during the first week of December ((Padmavati releases on December 1) and she will be followed by Ranveer after that. It was a unilateral call taken by Bhansali and his team, in the light of various controversies erupting over the release of the film. They decided it was best that Deepika and Ranveer not to come together on a common platform and promote the film at all – on any television show. Deepika, Ranveer and the creative and marketing teams of Padmavati have decided that the two stars won’t promote the film together on any television show on any platform. As far as Shahid is concerned, apparently he is upset with the way the makers are publicizing the film and highlighting Ranveer more than him, so he will come on other shows in solo appearances. Of course, all the lead actors have to show their unity with Bhansali hence all will maintain that in public and pretend everything is just fine. In private however, it is a different story.”
We had written about the three lead actors coming together to promote the film today evening in Ahmedabad (Gujarat) at an event. But we heard that the show got cancelled a couple of days ago. The source adds, “One doesn’t know why the Ahmedabad show got cancelled as a promotional schedule had been chalked out and Ranveer, Deepika and Shahid’s dates had been coordinated. It was for the first time that the trio were coming together on a common platform but now it’s not happening. People have created a controversy about a dream sequence between Deepika and Ranveer and the makers including Bhansali have gone hoarse denying it. There is no dream or romantic sequence between them at all, in fact they don't even meet in the film, but the Padmavati team didn't want to take a chance and bring them on a public platform together and create more controversy.”
In the movie, Deepika plays the title role of Rani Padmavati, Shahid Kapoor plays the King of Chittor, Maha Rawal Ratan Singh and Ranveer plays Sultan Alauddin Khilji. The film is about the love story between a king and his queen and how one man's obsession with the queen's beauty destroyed so many families.
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