What is Sanjay Dutt getting from his bio-pic Sanju?

By now the world knows Rajkumar Hirani’s Sanjay Dutt bio-pic Sanju is a blockbuster. But what is the real Sanjay Dutt getting out of it? Apparently, Sanjay Dutt has been given a hefty sum for opening the vaults of his life to his friends. It is also being rumoured that he has been promised a part of the profits.



A source close to the development reveals, “Sanju didn’t come for free. Sanjay Dutt’s team negotiated hard. They finally settled for an outright Rs. 9-10 crores, plus a portion of the box office profits. Only then were the film’s producer Vidhu Vinod Chopra and director Rajkumar Hirani allowed access to Sanjay Dutt’s life.”

Of course several incidents and characters from the real Dutt’s life were requested to be ‘blocked’ from the bio-pic. Names of prominent girlfriends who are now married and settled to blissful matrimony were requested to be barred. “It was made clear from the beginning that it would be a selective bio-pic, and Rajkumar Hirani was okay with that,” says the source.

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EK VILLAIN sequel on the cards: Karan Johar joins hands with Ekta Kapoor for the second part of the romantic thriller

Considering the success the romantic thriller Ek Villain tasted in 2014, the makers were always keen on a sequel to it. And of course, media reports fuelled up further speculations about the second instalment. The latest on that front is that the sequel is indeed going to happen and this Karan Johar will be a part of it.

Our sources have it, that Karan Johar will be teaming up with Ekta Kapoor for an Ek Villain sequel. Furthermore, while Ekta will be a producer under her Balaji Motion Pictures banner like in the prequel, Karan will be presenting the film under his banner Dharma Productions. We hear that besides this, Mohit Suri will be directing the sequel too.

It is being said that the Ek Villain sequel is in its initial stages. The cast and the other details are yet to be finalized. The official announcement will be made once the scripting is finished.

On the other hand, a few months ago, we had reported that Sidharth Malhotra, Ekta Kapoor and Mohit Suri were coming together for a film. While rumours of it being a sequel to Ek Villain were denied, it was learnt that the said film will be a love story. While the leading lady wasn’t announced, sources had claimed that it was a small town love story with edgy characters. But there has been no progress about the film since then.

As for Ekta Kapoor, she is currently riding high on the success of her girl gang film Veere Di Wedding. The success of this film, featuring Sonam Kapoor, Kareena Kapoor Khan, Swara Bhaskar and Shikha Talsania in lead roles, was a light-hearted chick flick that opened doors for a new genre that is yet to be explored well in Bollywood.

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Akshay Kumar is proud to present his next film Chumbak

Over the years, Akshay Kumar has produced quite a few films. However, it is his production company’s name that one finds on the credit detail. His name has traditionally never featured in the producer or presenter credits. However, he is making an exception to the rule with his next release Chumbak.

“Chumbak is a heart-warming tale and once he saw the film, he immediately bought it. Now not just is his company name featuring as the producers, even his name is there right at the top as a presenter,” informs an insider.

“Akshay was mighty impressed once he saw the film,” the insider adds, “While he is acting in different films across varied genres which have appropriate budget allocated to them as per the stage, setting and need of the subject, Chumbak is a low budget Marathi film with no frills whatsoever. It is the story factor that did the trick for Akshay and he didn’t take much time to have his name associated with the film.”

Directed by Sandeep Modi, the film is produced by Aruna Bhatia, Naren Kumar & Cape of Good Films with Sujatha N Kumar & Shreni Modi as the co-producers. Kyra Kumar Kreations is the production house associated with Chumbak.

“Though Akshay is on his annual monsoon holiday currently, he is constantly monitoring the kind of response that Chumbak is generating. He wants to make sure that the film gets all the required eyeballs before it releases all over 27th July,” a close associate of the actor adds.

As for the film itself, Chumbak is the story of a 14-year table-cleaning waiter boy, Baalu, who decides to con people with an SMS lottery scam to fulfil his dream and escape his poverty. But the person he cons turns out to be a 45-year-old mentally slow villager, Prasanna, who is equally poor and in desperate need! Caught between his dreams and his conscience of conning such a man, Baalu will now have to make his choice. Chumbak is a story of these choices for Baalu and this chance encounter with Prasanna and this equally strange relationship between them that shall shape his life.

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Box Office: Sanju is on fire, set to cross Rs. 100 crores today

Sanju scored big on Saturday too as the momentum stayed on with the film for the second day in succession. The film collected Rs. 38.60 crores more and that is a very big number again. With this, the overall collections now stand at Rs. 73.35 crores, as a result of which it is now just a matter of time before the 100 crore mark is crossed.

The collections so far have ensured that the film would emerge as a super hit at the least and what needs to be seen is where does it go after the opening weekend is through. Back in 2014, PK had taken an opening day of Rs. 27 crores post which the weekend stood at Rs. 95.21 crores. However, the film went on and on after that to register the first week of Rs. 183 crores with a big Christmas holiday during the weekdays further helping its case.

In case of Sanju though, there is no such holiday in the coming days which means it would be content and only content that would do the talking. Just a fortnight ago, Race 3 was helped immensely due to Eid holiday falling during the weekend but there is no such benefit in the waiting for Sanju.

Even though the film is not quite being hailed as a masterpiece, the word of mouth is still in a positive direction which means a big number is pretty much for the taking. For the makers Rajkumar Hirani, Vidhu Vinod Chopra and Fox Star Studios, it is a matter of checking out whether Sanju will emerge as an Rs. 200 crore odd runner or would there be much bigger laurels awaiting it in days and weeks to come.

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