Devgn 'annoyed by Raajneeti marketing'

Ajay Devgn is annoyed with Prakash Jha for the way he has marketed Raajneeti, according to Mid Day.

The 41-year-old actor, who has been close friends with Jha for more than ten years, was apparently upset because the director has been promoting the film as a romantic movie rather than a political drama.

"Raajneeti is a powerful political dramatic thriller where the entire cast has good roles. But the actor feels the director has been only showing the romantic angle between Ranbir [Kapoor] and Katrina [Kaif] to exploit the couple's chemistry and off-screen dosti," a source close to Devgn revealed.

"Ajay told Prakash in no uncertain terms that he felt that Rajneeti was being promoted as a romantic film when it was essentially a political drama. The actor didn't want the audience to feel cheated into thinking it was a romantic film.

"Ajay feels he has been taken for granted long enough. Because of their decade-long friendship, so he felt he could speak his mind with Prakash. It's barely ten days to the release and not much of the publicity has featured Ajay. He has never spoken strongly to anyone before and Prakash got naturally jittery. He told Ajay that he had nothing to worry about. He even flew down to Goa for a couple of days to complete some shots with the actor and sort out the issue."

Jha said: "I would like to check with Ajay before saying anything. Why should he be unhappy with the promos? The music people are doing the promos and they wanted to show the romantic angle. Since the romance is only between Ranbir and Katrina, the promos are showing that.

"But now the dialogue promos have started which has Ajay mouthing a very powerful dialogue. I love Ajay as much as I love myself and can never sideline him. I don't think there's any issue. I am doing my next two films with him."