Imaad Shah's hair-raising story
By:
Praveen
Lance
Fernandes,
IndiaFM
Wednesday,
April
11,
2007
"For
Heaven's
sake
discard
the
monstrous
wig
which
makes
the
English
judges
look
like
rats
peeping
through
bunches
of
oakum"
.
These
were
the
words
of
late
US
President
Thomas
Jefferson.
We
really
wonder
what
he
would
have
said
had
he
seen
Imaad
Shah's
hairdo.
Sometimes weird things can bag you good films. In this case it was Imaad's hair or was it? One of the leads of Dil Dosti etc, Imaad enacts the role of a spoilt rich kid in the film. After a walk on part in his father Naseeruddin Shah's directorial debut Yun Hota Toh Kya Hota, one would have expected Imaad to jump into the movie bandwagon and starting signing films.
However that was not the case. Being the son of one of the most talented actor in India, the lad confesses that he is not keen on an acting career. "Apart from Dil Dosti etc. there are no more film projects. I am just hanging around right now", says the young man. So with that, one would think that he didn't go out of his way to bag the film. So how did it all happen? The tale is quite funny...
Much before his minor stint in YHTKH, Imaad went onto do the Nestle Polo ad. Remember the ad with a Shepard boy with curly hair who after popping a Polo in his mouth breathes out only to blow a whistle through the mint? Split ending (Pun intended) the ad with the line 'Polo Khao, Seethi Bajao', that young Shepard was Imaad himself.
Connection to Dil Dosti etc.?
Director Manish Tiwary tells us, "I saw him in the Nestle Polo ad, whistling to the sheep! I liked him instantly and thought he would be perfect for the role of Apurv."
Well almost perfect!
"Of course, I wanted him to get rid of that ugly wig. And imagine my surprise when I met him for the first time and realized that the fizzy hair comes with him. That was his real hair", laughs the director.
On asking Imaad about this he said, "Manish saw me somewhere and he thought I looked all right."
Well, obviously Manish's views on Imaad's hairstyle hadn't reached Imaad's ears.
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