When Sanjay Dutt Appealed to Apoorva Lakhia to Postpone his film!

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When Sanjay Dutt APPEALED to Apoorva Lakhia to POSTPONE his film!

Everybody in Bollywood knows that Sanjay Dutt and director Apoorva Lakhia are great friends and the director has always stood by Dutt through thick and thin. Both Dutt’s comeback film Bhoomi directed by Omung Kumar and Lakhia’s Haseena Parkar are releasing on September 22. The two close friends had apparently even made a pact when their release dates were finalized that they would not discuss each other with the media. Buzz was that Lakhia had been upset that his film was clashing Dutt’s comeback film as the two go back a long way. The decision about the film’s release was taken by the producers of Haseena Parkar and Lakhia had no choice, but to agree.

Now we have heard that recently Dutt got in touch with Lakhia to ask him to postpone the film. Says a trade source, “Sanju’s producers Sandeep Singh, Bhushan Kumar and Omung Kumar wanted a solo release for the star as it’s his comeback film. They feel that if any other film releases with Bhoomi it may cut into the box office profit of the film. Sandeep asked Sanju if her could talk to Apoorva as they were close buddies and request him to postpone the film. While the films are of two different genres – Bhoomi is a revenge drama and Haseena is a crime drama, in today’s times one has seen if two good films clash at the box office, both suffer as a chunk of the profits get divided.”

The source adds that it was a tough call for Dutt to make. “Sanju usually doesn’t like to ask his friends of any favour and has never done this before. But he is also mindful of what a producer goes through, he knows that the Bhoomi producers have invested a lot of faith and money in his comeback film and he doesn’t want to let them down. Sanju finally called Apoorva to his Bandra residence one day and had a lengthy conversation with the director. Apooorva expressed his helplessness and said he was unable to do anything in this matter as it was completely his producer’s call. As the Shraddha Kapoor-starrer has been pushed back twice, the makers felt this was the best date available to them. Sanju understood and let it be. Their friendship is still the same as both understand that it’s not their film and once release dates are announced it’s difficult to change them.”

A source close to Sandeep Singh says, “Yes Apoorva and he have had discussions about postponing the release of Haseena and Sanju sir has been part of them but we understand that it’s the producers call (of Haseena Parkar) not to postpone the film and we abide by that.”

When contacted Apoorva Lakhia says, “It’s not true. Sanjay Dutt will never do that.”

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