EXCLUSIVE: ‘Naseeruddin Shah, Anupam Kher took no fee for A Wednesday’, reveals producer Shital Bhatia: Bollywood News

Filmmaker Neeraj Pandey and producer Shital Bhatia’s Auron Mein Kahan Dum Tha recently started streaming on Prime Video. While talking about the film, Bhatia looked back on their first film together a wednesdaywhich was produced under his banner Friday Filmworks. Starring Naseeruddin Shah and Anupam Kher, the film remains iconic even 16 years after its release.

EXCLUSIVE: ‘Naseeruddin Shah, Anupam Kher took no fee for A Wednesday’, reveals producer Shital Bhatia

Sharing how he and Pandey began their journey together, Bhatia, in an exclusive chat with Bollywood Hungamasaid, “Neeraj and I started our journey in television. We used to do programming. But we stopped doing it when daily soaps started. It wasn’t our cup of tea. So we moved on and create our own film company, and the first film was a wednesday. We come from that origin that we also tell stories in digital format”.

a wednesdayhowever, it was not thought of in his first film. “Before a wednesdayNeeraj had written three scripts, but we couldn’t make them. The first film was of the budget of Rs. 10 crore, the second of Rs. 7.5 crore and the third of Rs. 5 crores. So we decided to write a screenplay that we can raise funds for. During the discussion about what we can do, we came up with the idea of a wednesday. We jumped at it,” he said.

Sharing about the timeliness of the film, Bhatia said, “It was the story of every common man in the country. And we were going through that situation where blasts were happening left, right and centre. . As ordinary citizens it affected us all.”

Bhatia said that instead of facing challenges, they were actually excited to make their first film. They were greatly helped by the generosity of Shah and Kher. “We were very lucky with all the actors we approached. I remember when I went to Naseer sahab and Anupam ji and asked about the advertisements. I said I am a first time producer, and Neeraj is a newbie director, and we don’t have much money. And they were both nice enough to say that they don’t want to charge anything for what we want to put in our contract,” the producer revealed.

Talking about the casting of other actors, Bhatia said, “Jimmy is a close friend. I was excited to be on board. Aamir Bashir joined. I thought we got on very well and it was very easy the major part of the time.”

We live in the age of sequels and franchises. When asked if they ever thought about making a sequel a wednesdaysince it’s the zamana of the sequels, Bhatia said, “Abhi zamana ho gaya isliye vichaar nahin aa raha hai. Sab kar rahen hain toh woh karke faayda kya?”

a wednesday saw Shah play the ‘Stupid Common Man’ while Kher was seen in the role of the Mumbai Police Commissioner. Shah’s character is initially posed as an aide to the four terrorists arrested in the Mumbai train blasts. He rescues the city and demands the release of the four terrorists. However, he later learns that his main mission was to eliminate the four culprits as he is fed up with terrorist attacks in the country.

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