Actors Ajay Devgn and Akshay Kumar with Singham Again manager Rohit Shetty. (Image: Akshay/Facebook)
Bollywood icons Ajay Devgn and Akshay Kumar are presently revelling successful the monolithic occurrence of manager Rohit Shetty’s Singham Again, which marks their instrumentality arsenic iconic cops Bajirao Singham and Veer Sooryavanshi, respectively. Made astatine a reported fund of Rs 350 crore, the movie has already earned Rs 340 crore globally, arsenic per manufacture tracker Sacnilk, contempt pugnacious contention from the horror-comedy Bhool Bhulaiyaa 3. The film’s triumph comes arsenic a much-needed triumph for Akshay, who had been struggling astatine the container bureau for immoderate time, with each 3 of his erstwhile releases this twelvemonth — Bade Miyan Chote Miyan, Sarfira and Khel Khel Mein — bombing. The nonaccomplishment of Bade Miyan Chote Miyan besides sparked controversies and heated debates astir prima remuneration and the soaring costs of maintaining their entourages.
The 2 stars precocious addressed the taxable of actors’ salaries, with Akshay revealing that often, “we don’t get immoderate money.” Speaking astatine the Hindustan Times Leadership Summit 2024, they were asked whether inflated budgets were owed to prima fees. In response, Ajay said, “The actors complaint according to scripts, films and projects. And astir of america are charging according to recoveries.”
“I hold with astir of what helium (Ajay) said. If we motion a movie today, we don’t complaint anything; we conscionable instrumentality a stake. If it works, we get a stock successful the profit, but if it doesn’t, we don’t get immoderate money,” Akshay said explaining this statement ensures actors stock the hazard with producers, making the strategy fairer. “Sometimes, determination is nary share, either. Then you person to fto spell of the price. That’s besides passion,” helium added.
During the summit, Ajay besides tore into the B-Town for the deficiency of camaraderie among its members. In effect to a query connected the quality betwixt Bollywood and South movie industries, Ajay Devgn said determination was a wide deficiency of unity successful Bollywood. When Akshay said, “I hold that we don’t person overmuch unity. I don’t cognize what Ajay thinks,” the Singham prima added, “That’s what I think, and that’s what I support discussing. It’s not astir openings, which are a antithetic communicative together, arsenic a batch of things travel into play. But I truly admit however they (the radical successful the southbound industries) travel unneurotic and basal for each different arsenic an industry, which, honestly speaking, we deficiency successful the Mumbai movie industry. I ever privation that to happen.” He, however, stated that the apical stars — including himself, Akshay, Shah Rukh Khan, Salman Khan and Aamir Khan — support a beardown and conflict-free relationship.
The league besides witnessed Ajay Devgn announcing that helium is presently moving connected his adjacent directorial task which volition diagnostic Akshay arsenic well. “This is thing we were going to denote aboriginal but I deliberation this is simply a large platform. We’re already moving connected thing unneurotic wherever I’m directing the movie and he’s successful the film,” Ajay said, arsenic Akshay added, “It’s going to beryllium great, being directed by Ajay Devgn.”
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