Ruslaan’s an idiot

by Kshama Rao:

Success can really turn things around. Ask Ruslaan Mumtaaz whose first tryst with films didn’t do much for his career until recently, when television resurrected his career with Jee Le Zara. The show, which has him in a romantic lead, has not only made him a household name but also seems to have given his film career a new lease of life. Ruslaan has bagged a lead role in a romcom called Romeo Idiot Jattani Juliet. And while the channel has you believe that he’s got the role after he did the show, Ruslaan says, “ I had already signed and shot for the film before I took up Jee Le Zara. I couldn’t complete it because I took up the show so now I’ll have to shoot both the film and the show.” So have the makers changed his role, courtesy his new- found popularity? “ No, but considering my romantic image, now they have added two new songs to it!” he says. The film about a Mumbai boy who falls in love with a Haryanvi girl, stars a new girl, Rashmi Singh and Sharat Saxena as the girl’s father. “ It’s directed by Ajay Logan who assisted Satish Kaushik on Tere Sang in which I starred,” says Ruslaan, whose on- screen character DV is nursing a broken heart what with Saanchi’s family against their older- girl- youngerboy relationship. TV actor bags a role in romcom called Romeo Idiot Jattani Juliet Ruslaan Mumtaz