REVEALED: Sonam Kapoor was offered just Rs 11 for her role in Bhaag Milkha Bhaag : Bollywood News – Bollywood Hungama

August 8, 2021

There have been a number of cases in our trade whereby actors and actresses have refused to signal a movie regardless of having dates and loving the script as a result of the remuneration wasn’t as per expectations. However, there have additionally been examples whereby actors have fortunately diminished their charges or labored for free to assist a challenge they believed in or attributable to private relations with the filmmaker. Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra has talked about this facet in his autobiography ‘The Stranger In The Mirror’, co-authored by Reeta Ramamurthy Gupta, at a couple of locations.

Rakeysh had directed Delhi-6 (2009) for which he had signed Sonam Kapoor because the movie’s main actress. Both loved working with one another so much and the filmmaker determined to get her on board for his subsequent, Bhaag Milkha Bhaag (2013), as effectively. However, she had a quick look in the movie because the fictional muse of Milkha Singh, performed by Farhan Akhtar.

Rakeysh wrote in the e-book that “Sonam Kapoor benevolently accepted to play a guest appearance for a princely sum of Rs. 11 only for her brief portrayal of Biro.” Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra additionally added that she lit up the display each time she appeared in the movie. Sonam additionally has fond reminiscences of the movie and has stated that “I am the tadka in the film”.

Leading actresses these days typically do not take up such elements and therefore, Rakeysh was all reward for the actress. He wrote, “Sonam understood that the film was not a love story – it was about a Partition survivor’s tryst with his horrific childhood, and that Isri Kaur, the sister, was his only connection to a past that he was reluctant to both own and discard.”

When Bollywood Hungama solely requested Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra about why she was paid this quantity, he revealed, “She chose to accept Rs. 11. She had a special appearance in the film. Both of us shared an amazing journey with Delhi-6 before that. She told me that she is needed for just 7 days for the shoot and she praised us for trying to say something so beautiful, about the partition of this country and the spirit of Milkha Singh. So she wanted to contribute to the film as well. It was very nice of her.”

Sonam Kapoor’s presence helped the movie from the advertising and marketing facet. The two songs ‘Mera Yaar’ and ‘O Rangrez’ had been used to advertise the movie and provides an concept that the standard romantic angle in the movie may be very a lot there.

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