J.P. Dutta upset with reports, retorts...
By:
Subhash
K.
Jha,
IndiaFM
Friday,
November
24,
2006
A
report
stating
that
J.P.
Dutta
has
paid
Abhishek
Bachchan
a
mere
Rs
5
lakhs
for
his
role
in
Umrao
Jaan
has
the
filmmaker
withdrawing
into
an
angry
and
hurt
shell.
"I'd
not
like
to
say
anything
on
this.
Why
don't
you
ask
Abhishek
and
Ash
what
they've
been
paid?
Abhishek
is
like
my
own
child.
And
I'd
certainly
not
exploit
him.
What
I
object
to
is
the
statement
that
I
normally
don't
pay
my
stars.
That's
not
just
untrue
but
defamatory.
My
lawyers
are
looking
into
taking
action," says
JP,
and
clams
up.
The Movie Moghul's wife Bindiya is forthright in her comments on the pay issue. "No one out here is doing anything for charity. When everyone is looking at a profit why would JP deprive his cast and crew of their just remuneration? Enough canards has been spread about him not paying his stars."
Bindiya gets emotional. "Even during LOC JP was accused of not paying his stars. We kept hearing rumours of this or that star grumbling about non-payment. No one came and directly told us that we hadn't paid them. They couldn't because it wasn't true."
She sighed, "Enough is enough. There's a limit to how much JP will be attacked for being who he is. Just because he doesn't retaliate people think they can get away with saying anything. He makes his films exactly the way he wants, and with the actors he wants. If Umrao Jaan hasn't succeeded in India it doesn't mean people have the right to make any statement they want."
Adds a source from JP, "JP Saab made Ash look glamorous dressed from head to toe. He respects women. That's why he made a film on the story of the ultimate courtesan even though everyone warned him it wasn't commercially feasible. Heroine-oriented films have never had it easy at our box-office. Pakeezah worked only because of Meena Kumari's death."
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