Shooting Of Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s BAJIRAO MASTANI Stalled Due To Non-Payment Issue
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Saturday, 5th Sept 2015, 2:46 PM IST Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s ‘Bajirao Mastani’ is surely one of the most awaited films of the year. The movie stars Deepika Padukone, Priyanka Chopra and Ranveer Singh. It is learnt that in the last week of August the crew of the film decided not to work as they were not paid. A source said, “Bhansali’s set at Film City is huge and needs a lot of people to run the show behind the camera. The light men, spot boys, carpenters etc work tirelessly to ensure that the captain of the ship, SLB, has no issues while shooting . But he had not cleared their pay for the month of July-August. The workers had been regularly reminding SLB’s production about the same, but for some reason the calls went unheard. So one day in the last week of August, they decided to stall work. Almost 500 workers said ‘no work till we receive the payment’.” Another source said, “When they called off work, senior members from the Film Studio Setting and Allied Mazdoor Union reached the sets to take the matter ahead. After five hours of haggling, the workers were assured they’d gettheir dues and resumed work the next day.” Gangeshwarlal Shrivastav, general secretary of the union confirmed the news and said, “Their daily wages were not paid and workers went on a strike on their own. When we came to know, we spoke to the necessary people on the set and the following day all payments were released.” Now you can enjoy ad-free experience by downloading India’s first Box Office mobile app from here –Android: http://bit.ly/BOCapsuleMobileApp and iOS: bit.ly/BOCapsuleiOSApp |