The marketing strategies to present Saif Ali Khan’s daughter debut have been unusual. Firstly, there was a ‘rumour’ planted stating that Sara will team up with Sushant Singh Rajput. However, sources close to Sushant found the talk premature.
“No contracts have been signed. Nothing is official. How can they plant rumours without official confirmations and contracts?” asked the source.
What followed was stranger still. Apparently, the hapless girl accompanied director Abhishek Kapoor to the tough trekking terrain of Kedarnath.
“You travel with an aspiring debutante to Kedarnath for a movie titled Kedarnath, and then you still claim it to be rumours?” a prominent filmmaker asks.
Significantly, Sushant, busy promoting his new release Raabta, was nowhere to be seen in Kedarnath with his purported director and leading lady.
“To Sushant, it made no sense to rush to Kedarnath before any formal announcement,” says a source.
Seemingly, Sara’s mother Amrita Singh is not very happy with the way her daughter’s debut is being projected in the media. But she has little to say in the matter as her daughter is making independent career decisions.
Says an insider, “Amrita was keen that Sara makes her debut in a Karan Johar production. But nothing was happening. Sara got impatient. She grabbed the Abhishek film with Sushant, although the director’s last film Fitoor was a disaster.”
