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Producer Ambika Hinduja wants Anurag Kashyap to pay her if he wants Dev D's script back. He had sold the rights of the film to her as she was earlier supposed to produce the modern adaptation of Devdas

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Ambika Hinduja

Anurag Kashyap (of Black Friday and No Smoking fame) will have to shell out a good amount before he starts calling 'Camera, Lights, Action' again. Anurag can only start rolling his film Dev D only after he buys the script from Ambika Hinduja's Serendipity Films.

Ambika was earlier supposed to produce the Abhay Deol-starrer, which is a modern adaptation of Devdas. Anurag had sold the script to her. However, Ambika later backed out for reasons best known to her.

Now, UTV will be producing the film.

The script is written by Kashyap but he had sold it off to Ambika when he tied up with her for the film. Says a source, "Now, he has to buy his own script back from Ambika. She has clearly told him that Dev D's script can be his again only after he pays her. Both parties will soon sit to settle the matter."

Ambika Hinduja

Ambika, who is the daughter of business tycoon Ashok Hinduja, has earlier produced the critically acclaimed film, Being Cyrus. She confirmed the news and said, "Yes, it's true that I have asked Anurag to pay me if he wants Dev D's script back. Anurag and I are soon going to negotiate the deal."

However, Ambika did not divulge the amount that Kashyap will have to pay her. Will it be more than what she had paid him, we asked? Ambika laughed and said, "I really can't talk about the numbers. Anurag is a friend whom I know since a long time. I am not worried about the money."

Abhay Deol who stars in Dev D

Considering that Ambika had signed Anurag before Black Friday hit the theatres, did No Smoking's dismal performance at the box-office have anything to do with her decision to back-out of Dev D? "Not at all! There was no particular reason why I backed out," she says.

Punjabi actress Mahi Gill will play Paro in his modern adaptation of the classic.

It is learnt that after Ambika backed out, Anurag wanted Reliance to produce Dev D. But when nothing worked out, he approached UTV. Dev D was be made on a modest budget of Rs 3 crore when Ambika was producing it. We wonder if UTV will present it on a bigger canvas.

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