As Bollywood struggles with increasing production costs and underperforming films, one ongoing debate is the rising prices as a result of stars’ massive entourages. From personal chefs to stylists, these support groups regularly add to a movie’s budget. But actor Puneet Issar today shared a special take when recalling his experience working with Sunny Deol.
During a communication with Siddharth Kannan, Puneet remembered taking pictures of Border (1997) and stated Sunny has usually travelled in fashion, however not at the production rate. “Sunny raja aadmi hai. Woh jahan jaata hai raja ki tarah jata hai. Uska pura entourage chalta hai. Uske cooks bhi aayenge, badminton ka court bhi hoga, pura health club jayega.”
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Puneet stated that Sunny even went the extra mile to address others. “He will ask you that I am travel with all of this weight, if there’s something which you also want to hold so he can load it up as well.” He said, “Sunny is like king, like an emperor. That’s the way Sunny Deol is.”
When asked if today’s large entourages affects film budgets, Puneet stated that matters have been extraordinary earlier. “I don’t expect Sunny could put the bill at the producer. That’s why I said, he’s a king. Even Salman is like that. It’s a requirement, it’s a need to for them, they want it, they should workout.”
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He talked about how having an entourage isn’t new, bringing up stars from the golden generation of Bollywood. “Rajesh Khanna, Dharmendra, Vinod Khanna, Shatrughan Sinha, Dilip Kumar include Sunny Deol “—all of them had their people with them on set.
Meanwhile, filmmaker Anurag Kashyap has an extra view of today’s spending patterns. In a preceding interview with Humans of Cinema, he said that a significant amount of cash is wasted on things that don’t enhance the film itself.
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