Kumar Mangat-Anees Bazmee fallout
After the crippling failure of his latest comedy Pagalpanti, the Bollywood entertainment industry is abuzz with rumours of a noisy fall-out between producer Kumar Mangat and the film’s director Anees Bazmee.
Apparently, Mangat blames Anees entirely for the disaster and has refused to pay the director his entire remuneration.
A source in the know spills the beans as he reveals, “Kumar Mangat was sure he had a goldmine in his pocket. Anees Bazmee has delivered big comedy hits in the past such as Welcome and No Entry. Anees had promised the producer a blockbuster comedy like the recent Housefull 4. In fact, the entire Pagalpanti team thought it had another Housefull on its hands.”
Alas, that was not to be. The failure of Pagalpanti has soured relations between Bazmee and his producer Kumar Mangat to the extent that the latter has stopped taking Bazmee’s calls.
We do hope our entertainment industry would take a mature view of success and failure as two sides of the same coin.