MUMBAI: A very unpleasant incident broke out on the sets of Luv Ranjan's next, starring Ranbir Kapoor and Shraddha Kapoor at Mumbai's Royal Palms in Goregaon, this afternoon. Workers who had earlier worked on a song for this film shot in October 2021 at Mumbai's Charkop area in Kandivali, entered the set and said that 350 people from their fraternity had not been paid to the tune of Rs 1 crore, 22 lakh.

The police was summoned who has led away the agitated workers to Aarey Police Station and later the unions rushed to the cops to get them released. "The agitation was not aggressive but still, it was chaos, in fact, pandemonium," says a source. The shooting however continued after the workers were taken away in the police van.

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Luv Films had earlier sent a letter to FWICE and other unions, in response to the complaint made by Film Studio Setting & Allied Mazdoor Union’s General Secretary Ganeshwarlal Shrivastav, that they are not responsible for any non-payments as they had given all the necessary payments in this regard to the hired Production Designer, Dipankar Das Gupta.

According to Dibankar Das Gupta, Jaishankar and Gautam of Hyperlink were responsible for the mess. He was further quoted saying as "I had outsourced the project to a company called Hyperlink, from where two men, Jai Shankar and Gautam made an agreement with me. Much later, we came to know that those two had further outsourced it to a certain Prashant Vichare.”

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“Now, I have worked with Jaishankar and Gautam on many projects. They had even met Luv after coming on board. How would I dream that they will go on to outsource it further to someone else (Prashant Vichare)? And mind you, they hadn't kept us in the loop. In fact, later I was told that they had gone over-budget by over Rs 1 crore. Is it possible that anybody would go over-budget by Rs 1 crore and not bring it to the notice of the people who are above him in that project?”, he concluded.

Credit: ETimes