The entourage debate continues and refuses to die down. At the trailer launch of Sunny Sanskari Ki Tulsi Kumari, Varun Dhawan and Janhvi Kapoor shared their views and advocated that there’s a need to not burden the producer with unnecessary costs.
Now, it has come to light that Janhvi chose not to charge a single penny for her other recently-released film, Homebound. Co-starring Ishaan Khatter and Vishal Jethwa and directed by Neeraj Ghaywan, it is India’s official entry to the Oscars.
REVEALED: Janhvi Kapoor breaks the norm; works for FREE for Homebound, even pays her own staffUsually, the producers are asked to pay for the staff of the actors, but Janhvi proved to be an exception even with this aspect. Somen Mishra, producer at Dharma Productions, said in an interview to Mid-Day, ‘Everyone on this film took a cut. They knew what we were trying to do. I said this won’t be feasible if we don’t make it in a certain budget. Janhvi worked for free and even for her staff, she incurred the expense. All the writers took a cut.’
He added, ‘Dhadak 2 and Homebound are two of the most tight-budget Dharma films in a long time. I have read some of the budget numbers online, which are more than double (of the actual budget). But anybody who sees the film, anybody who knows production will tell you what the numbers are.’
Somen Mishra further said, ‘Dharma never loses money on any film because of the kind of budgets we make the films on, the kind of value we get, satellite, OTT, music, etc. So, it rarely happens that we lose money. Most of the numbers and trade conversations that I have read online (about Dharma’s films) are all false. I’ve read the numbers of Dhadak 2 and Homebound. They’re completely wrong. They are one of the tightest budgets and very safe films for us.’