New Mid Day Article- Crew member checck bounced back

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shelleywilliams

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Posted: 11 years ago

http://www.mid-day.com/articles/madhubala-ek-ishq-ek-junoon-crew-yet-to-get-their-dues/15402196

Salary cheques of crewmembers from the TV show, 'Madhubala', have apparently bounced

Sources say that the production crew of the TV show, Madhubala, is not being paid its dues. A crewmember from the show says, "The show is about to go off air but it recently got a few weeks' extension as the new show that will replace it is not yet ready.

Vivian Dsena and Drashti Dhami in Madhubala

Since the past few weeks, we have not got our money. We got our cheques only to realise that they have bounced. We are thinking of having a word with the senior members of the production team and it would be great if we could sort things out at the earliest."

The crewmember says that currently, the team is keen to complete shooting for the show and move on to the next assignment.

"But of course, we are quite disappointed with the state of affairs. We having been working on the show from the beginning and we were expecting to end it on a happy note. We are hoping that the production house will soon pay our dues."

Abhinav Shukla, the producer of the show, denied the buzz. He said, "If they haven't really been paid, then they should come to me or report the matter to the workers' union, why are saying this to the media. This is all hogwash."

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Edited by shelleywilliams - 11 years ago

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leelaa9

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Posted: 11 years ago

Seems the publicity to shift blame away from the channel has finally started.
AS has a valid point.

The interview seems to have a twofold purpose - mention that the PH are professionally faulty, and slip it in about how the cast are just waiting to move on.

And the extension given upto September was scrapped to less than a month, that too on the serial's 600th-episode day.
So why is the supposed 'source' crew-member giving incorrect statements and describing that extension-cancellation as a generous extension?

Sounds like an attempt to slant public opinion, with the channel hoping everyone would believe the statements at facevalue and think ill of the PH rather than the channel whose decisions are actually the problem.

Reminds of the 'source' who claimed - when VD was exiting - that the tracks had flopped because VD was unavailable.

Actually DVD had both been there in almost all scenes of each of the many consecutive tracks which flopped with consistent lack of viewership for the 'interesting' track-ideas.
So the track-ideas couldn't succeed even with the much-used presence of both leads.

Edited by leelaa9 - 11 years ago