Wednesday, 12th February 05:00 PM IST

As per reports, Preity Zinta has recently filed an FIR at the Khar police station against Nataraja, Director of Photography (DOP) for Ranbir Kapoor's upcoming 'Roy'. This has in turn affected Ranbir's schedule for Roy, as Nataraja was supposed to leave with him for a pre-shoot of Ranbir's film.

Preity has reasoned that Nataraja took an advance of Rs 20 lakh from her and is yet to return the amount despite not dropping out of the film.

According to a source close to the development - "She had signed Nataraja for Rs 85 lakh and had given him Rs 20 lakh as the signing amount. He had worked on the film for eight months before he was dropped. He thinks he was entitled to the advance."

Nataraja has now approached Anil Mehta, the industry's senior cinematographer, to play the mediator and last weekend he met the actress.

Vikramajit confirmed the news - "Nataraja has my full support. I will wait for him, I hope the crisis will be over by this month's end."