By Hindustan Times
Bollywood bombshell Mallika Sherawat's latest item number Laila in Priyadarshan's forthcoming action thriller, Tezz has not apparently gone down well with the director as he says it was not required and was added only for promotions. "I never wanted the thing song within the film however the producers (Ratan Jain of Venus) said we're a musical company and hence it came within the film. They went ahead with it and producers naturally are always right as they spend money at all times. I DIDN'T need to do it, in order that they shot it without me, but that may be fine," Priyadarshan told PTI in an interview.
"The song in Tezz isn't needed. It's placed with none connection. But such things they do for promotions.. and that's what they mean. 'Tezz' isn't a musical film.. it's an action film, so that they feel item songs and all are important for promotion. So I DO NOT know whether or not they are right or me," he said.
Mallika is seen grooving in a copper outfit to the object number sung by Sunidhi Chauhan, choreographed by Ganesh Acharya and composed by music duo Sajid-Wajid. Reportedly, three names had cropped for this song – Mallika Sherawat, Sameera Reddy and Jiah Khan.
The filmmaker insists he's not against the theory of getting item numbers in a movie but all he says is there have to be reason behind it to join the movie.
"I am basically against item songs, which can be installed the film with none reason. I'VE also shot item numbers, but only when it's needed. It'll go along with the film and it will not stand separately with none reference to the movie," he said.
With Tezz, Priyan has for first time dabbled in genre of action-thrillers.
"I made a thriller because that is something I HAVEN'T done before. And that's basically because I THINK in all more or less cinema.. when you like several roughly cinema you then could make all kinds of cinema. I DO KNOW I took a while to make a thriller however it never struck me. But I TRULY desired to do a thriller like Hollywood style," the director said.
