New Delhi, April 22, 2013-Producer-director Sohail Khan and actor Salman Khan’s forthcoming filmMental seems to have hit a hurdle, as the movie already has incured a loss of Rs.25 crore due to a tiff between stuntmen from Mumbai and those from the South.
Sohail had hired a leading South Indian fight master for the film and sources claim that as per the All India Film Employees Confederation (AIFEC), 70% of the fighters have to be from the Hindi film industry and the remaining 30% from the region of the fight master.
BA leading tabloid quoted a source as saying, “The unit had to return within a week even though it was a 15-day schedule in Kolhapur because the fighters refused to shoot.
There was another schedule in Lavasa, which was a continuity sequence from a Dubai shoot, that needed the same fighters. There too, the Film Employees’ Federation of South India (FEFSI) refused to send their stuntmen.”
The tabloid quoted another source- Dharmesh Tiwari, President of AIFEC, saying,”The FEFSI is not ready to follow the rule passed in March 2013, and they are forcing the producer to take 50% of their fighters.”
This disturbing turn of events has forced several filmmakers to replace South Indian action directors with local ones.
INDIA TODAY
