Stories that Rajnikanth is being roped in to perform a song and dance for the new Aamir Khan starrer Talaash has Rajnikanth’s camp completely flummoxed and angry. And Ranikanth’s associates tell us the mega-star is not amused. What is more, when this writer questioned the Talaash director Reema Kagti about the rumours that the iconic Rajnikanth is turning into an item boy for Aamir, Reema completely denied the rumour. “Not true,” the beleaguered director responded. Says a source, “So then where did this preposterous rumour start? At the moment Rajniji is completely involved with every department of his new film Kochadaiyyan. He is not even looking at doing any other work. He spends all his time with the post-production team. He is helping his daughter (Soundarya) with the editing, mixing, background score. Most of all, Rajniji wants to make sure that the special effects for the action sequences come out perfectly. For that Rajniji insists on flying out with the technical team to London each time they need to work on the effects.” Rajnikanth’s associate says, “At first Rajniji’s family took the rumours of an item song in their stride. But now the reports are getting increasingly inventive. We read somewhere that Mr Aamir Khan is keen to get Rajniji to do an appearance because Rajniji did the same for Ra.One. This is getting absurd. The special appearance in Ra.One was done as a very special favour to Shah Rukh. It doesn’t mean Rajniji would be play the item boy for every Khan in Bollywood.” So who started this bizarre rumour anyway?