Has Ekta cracked the whip again?

It has been reported that Star Plus was in knots after Ekta pulled out her stars from Salam-e- ishq, a Valentine programme to be aired on Sunday. It was also reported that the channel and the production house (Wizcraft) were compelled to rope in actors from Zee shows.

A source aware of the incident informs, "The production house received a call form the Balaji actors saying that they were unable to participate in the show as Balaji did not want them to be a part of it. It was shocking news for both the channel and production house. They had to rearrange everything."

Our source continues, "The theme for the show was such that each and every celebrity will promote their own show. For example stars from Kyunki will promote Kyunki… Kayamat actors will promote Kayamat and so on but their withdrawal had cleaned out everything."

Actors like Sharad and Divyanka, Hussain and Juhi Parmar will be performing at the event. Even Pulkit is part of the show.

"Balaji asked its actors to pull out so the channel had to offer some solution. It was very unprofessional behaviour as nobody knows the exact reason for Balaji's pull-out," adds the source.

"The initial meeting with Balaji and Wizcraft went smoothly. They had date problem with Gautami but even that was solved. Rehearsals were done and costumes were made but this sudden back -off ruined everything. The shoot which was supposed to get over in two days took one week. Everything from time, energy and money was wasted," informs the source.

It was reported that Jay Bhanushali and Panchi Bora were slated to perform at the show. We contacted them to know what exactly went wrong.

"I had a date problem so I backed out," says Panchi. And Jay says, "I was not even part of the show. Initially I received a call from the channel that they were doing this kind of a show but after that there was no feedback. I don't understand why newspapers and channels are talking about me."

Hey Ekta, make friends not enemies. You have enough of those.

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