Wednesday, 27 July 2011

Rohit Shetty miffed with Singham producers

Singham director Rohit Shetty is miffed with his producer Reliance Entertainment. After prolonged differences, he was asked to vacate his office by some members of the production unit 

Singham is roaring at the box office currently and so is its director Rohit Shetty. Despite having set the cash registers ringing, it looks like Rohit Shetty and the Ajay Devgn starrer's producers Reliance Entertainmenthad some major issues. 

Reportedly, there have been consistent issues between the production unit and the director since the beginning of the film. And recently, it reached to a state that Rohit moved out of his office, probably never to return. The possibility of them working together again looks bleak now. 

A source told Mumbai Mirror what exactly transpired between Rohit Shetty and Reliance. "There were various issues between some people from the production unit and Rohit Shetty. 

In fact, during the Goa schedule of the film, there were fights between them over trivial issues. Rohit was heard saying that he has never worked with such a production crew and he was unwilling to continue the film. However, Ajay's timely intervention made him complete it." 

The issues have probably not been minor. The unit crossed the line and Rohit was forced to vacate his office. "During the post production, Rohit had various issues which fumed him. But since he was racing against time, he let matters go. 

However, just a day before the release of the film, things turned nasty. People from the production team named Purva and Dhiraj Shah, sent an email to Rohit's chief assistant Bahul asking them to vacate the office premises. After Bahul informed Rohit about the email, he lost his cool completely and did not go to the office," said the source. 

When the higher officials of Reliance Entertainment learnt of the blunder, they immediately sent higher personnel to personally meet and apologise to Rohit and settle the matter. "Incidentally, that time Rohit was at Ajay's residence. 

While two officials reached Ajay's residence in Juhu, both Ajay and Rohit refused to meet them. The officials wandered for a couple of hours but when they saw that both Rohit and Ajay were in no mood to meet them, they left. It has been four days since the release of the film and Rohit has not spoken to any of the people in Reliance at all," revealed the source. 

The source added, "Going by what has transpired, Rohit an otherwise cool customer has no plans of working with them in the future. It is a fact that every production house has repeated Rohit in their films so far but working with Reliance again seems like a far-fetched proposal at the moment." 

While Rohit did not wish to comment on the episode, the spokesperson of Reliance Entertainment said, "Since Singham was an extremely quick production, stresses are invariable part of that experience. Right now, we are extremely pleased with the way the film has opened and hope it continues to play as successfully in the coming weeks."

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