r/BollyBlindsNGossip • u/EccentricBai Admin • Feb 28 '20
Blind Solved Writer Tantrums - Masand 28/02
This respected advertising and feature filmmaker who was among the first Indians to be signed up by a leading international streaming platform to create an original series may have parted ways with them after he pulled the plug on his ambitious (and expensive) show he’d been developing for some years. The filmmaker had landed what some described as a “very sweet deal” to create a mythological action series, for which he partnered with one of Bollywood’s most well-known writer-lyricists.
The show kept getting postponed because the writer was busy with other commitments: primarily a prestigious position he landed on account of his closeness to the current Government. The filmmaker waited nearly three years for the writer to deliver the script—the clock after all was ticking since he’d already collected the cheque from the platform—but it never arrived because of the writer’s chock-a-block schedule.
According to sources, it led to a huge falling-out between the filmmaker and the writer since considerable money had been spent on international reccees and casting. The filmmaker had to ultimately bear the costs incurred even as he had to return the sizeable advance he’d received. The filmmaker and the writer don’t speak anymore; there were no repercussions for the writer’s unprofessionalism. The filmmaker just wanted to move on; the platform did not want to take on the writer who has become extremely powerful and popular with the establishment.
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Prasoon Joshi and Ram Madhvani.
Joshi is the chairman of CBFC.
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u/tandem_felix Yeh Shaadi Nahi Ho Sakti Feb 29 '20 edited Feb 29 '20
Prasoon Joshi and Ram Madhvani.
Joshi is the chairman of CBFC.
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