Ekta Kapoor Foregoes Year’s Salary Of Rs 2.5 Crore To Help Co-Workers

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OB Bureau

Mumbai: Ekta Kapoor is the latest among celebrities from different walks of life to pitch in and help those who are in need of financial assistance.

The filmmaker and television producer took to Twitter to announce that she will will forego one year’s salary amounting to Rs 2.5 crores to help her co-workers in her company Balaji Telefilms.

With a 21-day nationwide lockdown being enforced by PM Narendra Modi from the midnight of March 24 to check the spread of novel coronavirus pandemic, all film and TV serial shoots have been suspended. Consequently, the lives of daily-wage workers in the industry have been severely impacted.

“The impact of corona crisis is huge, unprecedented and multi-pronged. We all need to do things that will ease the hardships of people around us and of our country at large. It is my first and foremost responsibility to take care of the various freelancers and daily wage workers who work at Balaji Telefilms and who are going to suffer immense losses due to no shootings in the current scenario and uncertainty over the indefinite period to follow,” Ekta said in a statement on Twitter.

“I would thus forsake my one year’s salary that is Rs 2.5 crore at Balaji Telefilms so that my co-workers don’t have to take a hit during this period of crisis and complete lockdown,” she said.

OB Bureau

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