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Tuesday, 8th July 2014, 06:44 PM IST Director Vishal Bhardwaj has decided to give up his remuneration for his upcoming film ‘Haider’ starring Shahid Kapoor and Shraddha Kapoor. After the last two directorial ventures of Vishal, ‘Matru Ki Bijlee Ka Mandola’ and ‘7 Khoon Maaf’ failed miserably at the box office, we wonder if the director has made a conscious decision not to charge anything for the film.
Interestingly, the film’s lead actor Shahid was sure that ‘Haider’ is a special film, and hence he also decided to forgo his remuneration of the film so that the budget is not overstretched. Vishal confirmed the news saying, “When he started planning the film, both Shahid and I agreed that it had to make money from day one. But, we also knew that ‘Haider’ was a big film with a huge budget, an ensemble cast and lavish action pieces.Filming in Kashmir added to the costs. The only way we could succeed in our endeavour was not to burden the film with our remunerations. We kept the secret between us for a long time but it's finally out.”
Knowing Shahid and his commitment for films, Vishal was mighty impressed when Shahid too gave up his recompense. He admittedly said that Shahid is the finest actor in his age group. “Shakespeare's play, ‘Hamlet’, has some really long monologues and so does 'Haider'. Listening to Shahid deliver those wordy pieces on my headphones I was reminded of Naseer and Pankaj Kapur,”said the director. With ‘Haider’ Vishal completes his Shakespearean trilogy that started with ‘Maqbool’ inspired from Shakespeare’s ‘Macbeth’,followed by ‘Omkara’ which was based on ‘Othello’. |