Salman to Return Rs 32.5 Cr to Distributors; SRK to Follow Suit?

Salman Khan will compensate for the losses suffered at the box-office over Tubelight.

File photo of Salman Khan and Shah Rukh Khan. 

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Tubelight’s Maharashtra distributor Shreyans Hirawat of NH Studioz can heave a sigh of life. Today on Wednesday (9 August), Salman Khan has called the distributor to compensate for the losses suffered at the box-office over Tubelight.

Salman on the behest of his father Salim Khan, agreed in June to reimburse for the losses suffered for Tubelight. The reimbursement is finally happening today.

Says a source close to the development,

Salman had promised to return his distributor’s money by the end of July. However he was busy shooting abroad for Tiger Zinda Hai. Now that he’s back in Mumbai he has agreed to return Rs 32.5 crores to the distributors. This is half of the total losses suffered by distributors over Tubelight.

Interestingly the same distributor, Shreyans Hirawat has suffered losses of around Rs 50 crores on the Shah Rukh Khan starrer, Jab Harry Met Sejal.

The buzz is Shah Rukh will follow in Salman’s footsteps and compensate for the losses as well.

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