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Even as Simran is off to a slow start at the box office, new reports of a serious rift between Kangana Ranaut and director Hansal Mehta during the shoot of the film in Atlanta have surfaced.
According to Huffington Post, who has accessed some “leaked” messages between Kangana and the film’s writer Apurva Asrani, things got so sour between Hansal and Kangana that the director didn’t even visit the sets for days.
While Kangana Ranaut and Hansal Mehta have been nothing but mutually admiring in public, the leaked messages suggest otherwise. Apparently there were constant arguments on the sets between the two and Hansal’s son Jai was flown down to handle the reins. Jai too couldn’t handle the actor being in charge. Kangana, who openly admits to “collaborating” with her director on every scene, reportedly even directed other actors in a scene leading to Hansal’s not coming to the sets altogether.
According to a “leaked message”, Kangana wrote to Apruva on 8 March:
I am done with a clueless and a spineless director. I am done with his selfish team. Skilled director left the film sighting gender bias issues, according to him he can’t handle a woman calling the shots, he was always told he’ll have to collaborate, on the other hand he encouraged me calling himself a feminist, then what happened to a feminist director?Kangana Ranaut
Kangana reportedly told Apurva that Hansal had abandoned the Rs 30 crore-project.
Truth is money came on my name. I proudly took the charge and directed the film with my head injury. Didn’t say let’s go back because the director has ran away.
According to Apurva, Hansal gave in to Kangana’s whims and fancies as he later gave in to her demands for Simran’s writing credits.
One helluva mess this.
(Source: Huffington Post)
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