Madhur Bhandakar ought to have been a busy man, directing his dream project Heroine. But nowadays he’s twiddling his thumbs in his office and coming to grips with the fact that his most ambitious project has been shelved within days of going on the floor.
Heroine was just a few days into the shooting when the news of its lead actress Aishwarya Rai’s pregnancy broke out. It’s unlikely that Aishwarya had no inkling of her impending maternity when the film went on the floors on June 7. After all, she’s believed to be four months pregnant now. Not just that, Madhur came to know about Aishwarya’s pregnancy not from her, but from the media.
Speaking to a tabloid, Madhur says he was shocked to learn of Aishwarya’s pregnancy, because she might have been injured during the days she shot for the film. Moreover, he says there was enough time between the announcing of the film at Cannes on May 13 and the commencing of the principal shoot in June that if Aishwarya had informed them of her pregnancy they would not have begun the shoot at all.
“The entire event would not have taken place if at the beginning the actress had informed of an impending maternity. The truth was hidden from us,” Bhandarkar is quoted to have told Mid-day.
Now that the film has been shelved, a loss has been suffered by not just the producer but also the crew who was associated with the film. Worst, Bhandarkar’s hard work of one-and-a-half years on Heroine has come to naught.
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