Mumbai: Amid the ongoing debate around the luxurious demands of celebrity on the sets, filmmaker Mahesh Bhatt revealed that his granddaughter, Raha has her own vanity van on mom Alia Bhatt’s sets.
Mahesh, who recently shot an ad campaign with daughter Alia and Amitabh Bachchan, described Raha’s vanity van as ‘a temple’ which he didn’t want to step in and make dirty.
In an interview with Humans of Bombay, the filmmaker praised Alia for handling her personal and professional life so well.
“Alia chose to get married, and she had a child, and she works. She just went to Milan for the Gucci event, carrying her daughter with her. I recently did an ad with her and Mr Bachchan. I saw that there was a vanity which was for Raha. And Alia says, ‘Why don’t you go an sit in Raha’s room papa?’ I didn’t want to contaminate it. It had the feeling of a nursery school. It almost looked like a temple. I said, ‘No, no, no, the old man has no place there’. But that’s the new-age heroines. They go to work, they’re parenting, they go to Gucci events carrying their baby with them,” he said.
Of late, there has been a buzz around new mom Deepika Padukone demanding fixed working hours so that she can spend quality time with her daughter Dua.
Unable to meet the demands of Deepika, the filmmakers chose to drop her from the film.
Deepika has been dropped from Sandeep Reddy Vanga’s ‘Spirit’ and ‘Kalki 2’ apparently due to her demands.
Meanwhile, several filmmakers such as Farah Khan and Anurag Kashyap opened up about how the A-listers’ demands add on to the budget of the films and burden the producers.
In a recent interview with Cyrus Broacha, director Sanjay Gupta shared about a Bollywood actor, who was dropped from a South Indian film for asking the producer to provide him with 6 vanity vans.
“I’ll tell you something very funny. This particular actor signed a film down south. He went for the shoot, and they went to the location, which is a studio. And suddenly, the producer finds that there are these six vans from Bombay, and he’s like, ‘Boss, I didn’t hire six actors’,” the director revealed.
He added, “They packed up that day, and they told the actor, ‘Sir, next three days there is a problem with the location; you return to Mumbai and we’ll tell you when to come back’. The minute that actor got on the flight, he called all the drivers and said ‘f**k off’. They scrapped the film! The producer scrapped the film. He said, ‘We don’t do this. Inform us. Ask us. You can’t just bring six vans and send a bill of Rs 18 lakh’.”
