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Posted: 9 years ago
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Originally posted by: MrsKhan

It's also possible that Disney did it purposely. They were fine till last year. Fox had been making bigger losses than Disney made.


If FOX can survive after so many flops (They didn't even fire Vijay Singh after those back-to-back flops), Disney can, too.

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Posted: 9 years ago
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Disney could be downsizing it's Indian operations. They shut down their gaming development and laid off staff, last year. Also, if these figures are right , they probably could make more money by bringing an animation or a Disney HW movie than making these big budget BW ones. Or could be a lay-off for restructuring their strategy for India.
Fitoor was always in the news for over-expenditure no?
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Posted: 9 years ago
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Originally posted by: charminggenie


Fitoor was always in the news for over-expenditure no?


But where did they spend all the money? From no angle it looked like an expensive movie. Except one hall room, rest of the rooms on the set looked cheap 90s ke set.
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Posted: 9 years ago
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Maybe Abhishek siphoned money. That's what some articles are saying. Not about him specifically but in general. Most directors with a little name have turned producers and demand profit sharing apart from their fee. Thrifty people like Balaji didn't work with him. So obviously he had unreasonable demands.
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Posted: 9 years ago
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^ But he got a co-producers credit for Fitoor. And why did Sid Roy Kapur let him blot crores up? Is he inept as a producer.. or he also gets a share?
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Posted: 9 years ago
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Could be he is inept. As the same problem happened with MD. Both movies were greenlit I think after Ronnie left. Ronnie is again working with Abhishek means he is confident of controlling him.
Sid RK was better at managing the smaller budgeted films. ABCD etc were successful for UTV.
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Posted: 9 years ago
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There were also rumors for a long time that many of the UTV team had left. I guess it wasn't a sudden decision as people leave when they realize there is trouble or the owners are changing strategy.
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Posted: 9 years ago
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Originally posted by: MrsKhan

There were also rumors for a long time that many of the UTV team had left. I guess it wasn't a sudden decision as people leave when they realize there is trouble or the owners are changing strategy.


Rats leaving the sailing ship. Yane ki my first guess could be right. Disney never wanted to be a Hindi film producer. Took over UTV for its goodwill.. started getting more screens and BW hero/heroines to promote their HW movies because of the goodwill. Now they are back to what they used to be: HW film distributor (A powerful version).

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