Since most of you enjoy reading some old blind items, here’s a new one for you. It’s from 2010 and was written by Subhash K Jha and published on Times of India. This is about a movie and which superstar is the main character based on. This is as close as we can get to someone speaking about this superstar in such a public way. We do remember this movie, but we’ve not seen it. As for the guy in it, Aryan Vaid, he’s still married today and is still working in the film industry. He did accuse his wife of trying to kill him, though. Maybe she remembered this movie of his and snapped! We don’t say more, just check out the blind item below.
Bollywood Old Blind Item
Aryan Vaid plays gay Bollywood superstar
Keep guessing. In a rather shady underproduction film called Dunno Why Aryan Vaid plays a happily-married Bollywood superstar who likes to sleep with male aspirants.
It’s not that Aryan, now happily married to an American photo-journalist (blessedly female) is shy of naming the iconic superstar on whom his character is based. Aryan happily names the inspiration for his gay character. “He’s happily married. But it’s quite often whispered that he swings both ways. My character is a closet-bisexual. But the cover is blown when the camera catches me in a bathtub with a star aspirant.”
Aryan’s introductory sequence has him nude in a bathtub with a wannabe star played by Kapil Sharma. “I’m supposed to be nude. But I wore my shorts. The aspirant wonders what the super-star’s wife would think if she saw us together like this. The superstar replies, “Oh she knows I do this. She does her own thing. I do my own.”
Ironically, the young actor, who plays the aspirant in the tub is the director’s brother. Aryan says Kapil Sharma had no inhibitions about getting into the bathtub and making love with the senior actor although Kapil’s brother was directing it.
“Kapil was quite cool. So was Sanjay the director although they’re brothers.” The sequence required the heterosexual Vaid to make out with Kapil. “On that very day my American wife Alexandra decided to drop in on the sets. When she saw me almost nude in the bathtub with another nude guy she first freaked out and then burst out laughing. I shudder to think what impression she formed of our cinema.”
Dunno Why purports to be an expose on the film industry. Bollywood seems to be shedding its skin. But the question is, what is an actress of Zeenat Aman’s calibre doing in a film like this.