{"id":1389,"date":"2005-04-20T16:51:11","date_gmt":"2005-04-20T21:51:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com?p=1389"},"modified":"2005-04-27T20:26:47","modified_gmt":"2005-04-28T01:26:47","slug":"aishwarya_not_g","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2005\/04\/20\/aishwarya_not_g\/","title":{"rendered":"Aish ain&#8217;t gettin&#8217; Hitched"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P><A href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0386588\/\"><IMG alt=\"\" hspace=20 src=\"http:\/\/www.sepiamutiny.com\/sepia\/Hitch.jpg\" align=right vspace=10 border=0><\/A><A href=\"http:\/\/www.sepiamutiny.com\/sepia\/archives\/001048.html\">Vaporwarya Rai<\/A> is endlessly rumored to be in talks for this movie&nbsp;or that. <A href=\"http:\/\/www.sepiamutiny.com\/sepia\/archives\/000783.html\">Bond girl<\/A>, anyone?<\/P>\n<P>But one particular missed opportunity is quite funny: the director of the Will Smith romantic comedy <EM>Hitch<\/EM> says Rai was to play <A href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraphindia.com\/1050415\/asp\/etc\/story_4557762.asp\">the college girlfriend<\/A>. And since Smith produced the film, he probably had a hand in it. Said the director:<\/P>\n<BLOCKQUOTE>I want to see Aishwarya Rai because she was almost in my film&#8230; There was a time when she was going to play the college girlfriend, which was originally a much bigger part. I think we were all keen on she doing it. But we had a demanding schedule which she couldn&#8217;t work out. That was the hitch on <I>Hitch<\/I>.<\/BLOCKQUOTE>\n<P>That&#8217;s the girlfriend with whom a <A href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Steve_Urkel\">Steve Urkel<\/A>-like, &#8217;80s version of Will Smith makes all his early romantic blunders, like being too clingy too early and blurting &#8216;I love you.&#8217;&nbsp;He later finds her making out with another guy in a parked car. &#8216;What did I do wrong?&#8217; he repeats pathetically, slumping against the glass. The Other Guy takes pity on him: &#8216;You&#8217;re doin&#8217; it <EM>right now!&#8217;<\/EM><\/P>\n<P>Wussy Will&nbsp;would&#8217;ve been an improvement over <A href=\"http:\/\/www.indiaoz.com.au\/bollywood\/news\/news47.shtml\">Two-Fisted Khan<\/A>.<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vaporwarya Rai is endlessly rumored to be in talks for this movie&nbsp;or that. Bond girl, anyone? But one particular missed opportunity is quite funny: the director of the Will Smith romantic comedy Hitch says Rai was to play the college &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2005\/04\/20\/aishwarya_not_g\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"-1","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1389"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1389\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}