Govinda has had two flop films,
Chal Chala Chal and
Money Hain Toh Honey Hain. His last hit was
Partner in 2007.
Obviously, he has high expectations from
Life Partner which is produced by Abbas Mustan and directed by Rumi Jaffrey. He is the only senior member in the cast that comprises Fardeen Khan, Tusshar Kapoor, Genelia D’Souza and Prachi Desai. All these actors don’t have star power as such. So for a promotional song, Govinda tried to his influence and contacts to rope in Lara Dutta and Katrina Kaif but they both refused. The two actresses appeared on Koffee with Karan together and were last seen with Chi Chi in
Partner. Also, Govinda is a good friend of Salman. He thought Katrina would agree because of the Salman connection but she refused citing date issues. Over the past month, she was busy with
New York promotions, post production for
Ajab Prem Ki Ghajab Kahani, a few endorsement events and then she left for Europe to celebrate her birthday. Katrina has never done item songs, anyway. She wants to be seen as a serious actress so why would she do item songs?
Lara Dutta who has also done the upcoming
Do Knot Disturb and
Banda yeh Bindaas Hai with Chi Chi refused citing date problems. She is currently in London shooting for Sajid Khan’s
Housefull. The last item song Lara did was
Aisa Jadoo Daala Re in Rajkumar Santoshi’s
Khakee in 2004. It was a big hit. She was also part of
Phir Milenge Chalte Chalte from
Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi as no smart person would refuse SRK and YRF. The song is quite popular.
Since these ladies refused the song, they had to rope in wannabe hottie Amrita Rao of
Shortkut (fame?) to do the item number. The music of
Life Partner is not a rage at all.
What can we say, Govinda’s career is on the downslide and no one wants to work with a fallen star. And everyone isn’t as lucky and powerful as Shah Rukh Khan to get three stars for three different item songs as he did with Kareena, Priyanka and Deepika in
Billu. Our advice to Chi Chi would be to do more films with David Dhawan and Salman Khan and lose some weight to get his career back on track.