riding high on the back of a few top stars
and some realistic movies. Last year many
announcements were made with the
biggest and best of stars but now
everything appears to be in limbo for the
time being. While a big question mark hangs
over the fate of a couple of their films
(shootings have been postponed), another
has got stalled indefinitely after starting the
shoot. Now we have come to hear that all is
not well
with another film of the same production
house with rumblings happening on the
very first schedule itself.
On a recent schedule in the hilly regions of
the north, involving a top actor and actress,
the buzz is that the producers ran out of
money. Apparently, the production unit was
facing a severe financial crunch and could
not afford to make their local payments.
Things got so bad that the local people
called shooting to a halt till their payments
were made. While the unit and the director
tried their level best to sort it out, things
were taking their own time (with repeated
assurances by production that money would
soon come in and the payments made) so
the lead actor and actress were asked to
return to Mumbai rather than waste dates
twiddling their thumbs and putting up pics
on social media (which the media would get
wind off and sniff a story). While the hero
returned to his home city and family's loving
arms, the actress invited her mother over to
sample the beautiful locales. It was put out
to media that the first schedule was
complete when apparently it had come to a
stop midway.
Now the lead actors have returned to their
locations and shooting has resumed again
albeit slowly. While some money has been
paid to the disgruntled elements, it's still not
the entire amount. Moreover, gossip about
the financial issues the production house
has been
facing, has started spreading among
the filmi folks. The buzz is that one senior
actor has opted out of an ambitious project
of theirs as he got miffed waiting to be paid
his due. The production house had come
under discussion in the film industry as they
signed stars for astronomical amounts and
seemed in a hurry to announce too many
projects.
While one knows that once the money
comes rolling in, everything will resume
again and it's just a matter of time, as the
saying goes... Slow and steady wins the
race. So maybe it's time for the producers to
re-think their strategies in order to move
ahead?
CREDITS: PINKVILLA.
https://www.pinkvilla.com/entertainment/guess-who/why-did-shooting-top-actor-and-actresss-recent-first-schedule-get-stopped-abruptly-400168.
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