A few days back, several crew and cast members of ‘Bade Miyan Chote Miyan’ (BMCM) stood up for Ali Abbas Zafar after Pooja Entertainment filed a case against the filmmaker. The production house claimed that he, along with producer Himanshu Mehra, misappropriated the subsidy funds they took from Abu Dhabi authorities during the shoot of the big-budgeted actioner. From associate directors to actors, everyone took to social media and cleared that the production house’s claims are “baseless” as Ali Abbas Zafar used the Abu Dhabi subsidy to clear off their dues.
Now, Ronit Roy has joined the team to expose Vashu Bhagnani’s Pooja Entertainment. Ronit said in an interview, “I’m lucky to have got a large part of my acting fees for my work on ‘Bade Miyan Chote Miyan’. The money was supposed to come from Vashu Bhagnani and it came from Vashu Bhagnani, but that happened only after Himanshu Mehra intervened. And when it came to the dues of my staff and my security company that guarded the sets in Mumbai, it was all very much delayed and we got that also due to Himanshu Mehra.” He added that the dues were cleared from the Abu Dhabi subsidy, and now Zafar and Mehra are trying their best to clear the remaining dues as soon as possible.
Ronit also mentioned that his experience of working on ‘Bade Miyan Chote Miyan’ was so “painful” that he will never work with Pooja Entertainment ever again.
Further clearing the air around Ali Abbas Zafar and the claims of him hijacking the film, Ronit said, “Vashu was on the set every day. He is a veteran. It is difficult to believe how he did not realise that on the set.”
Previously, IFTDA president Ashoke Pandit said that they’ve been following up with Pooja Entertainment for the last 8 months, but no action was taken by them to clear the dues. He also said that the crew of Bade Miyan Chote Miyan is being paid from the Abu Dhabi subsidy under the supervision of the FWICE.
