Shahid puts his faith in Prabhu

Shahid Kapoor is known for being really particular about the scripts of his films, asking for a bound version before he takes on a project. It is a different matter that his last few films haven’t really come across as the kind where the script could be considered the USP! For R... Rajkumar, however, we hear that Sasha broke his self-imposed rule. And the person responsible for his change of heart was director Prabhu Deva. “You don’t really argue with someone’s understanding of entertaining cinema when he has had two back-to-back commercial successes (Rowdy Rathore, Wanted). When it came to Prabhu Deva and R... Rajkumar, Shahid chose to take it easy and just go with the director’s vision without making any fuss about the script being presented to him in its entirety,” said one source. Shahid had opted out of Gori Tere Pyaar Mein citing creative differences and didn’t proceed with Once Upon Ay Time In Mumbaai Dobaara after the initial discussions, but when it came to R... Rajkumar, he seems to have grabbed the project, no questions asked. “That’s because he blindly trusts Prabhu,” says Viki Rajani, the film’s co-producer. “Everyone in the industry knows that he demands a bound script, but in this case, he just wanted to follow the path that Prabhu had set for him. The idea was to bring Bollywood’s youngest action hero on screen. Shahid was on board from day one.” When contacted, Prabhu Deva said, “When your leading hero believes in you so much, there is all the more responsibility for you to deliver as a director. Shahid totally surrendered to me and I had to make sure that his faith in me wasn’t belied.”