Rang De Basanti Cast Was Asked to Return Their Fees Because Producers Thought The Film Wouldn't Do Well –

Rang De Basanti sast was asked to return the fees:

Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra's Rang De Basanti, starring Aamir Khan, Kunal Kapoor, Siddharth, Sharman Joshi, R. Madhavan, Soha Ali Khan and Atul Kulkarni, is one of the most loved Bollywood classics of 2000s decade. The film was a super hit at the box office; what do you know that the cast was asked to return their fees because the producers felt that the film wouldn't do well at the ticket windows.

Actress Soha Ali Khan recently looked back at her experience of working on the cult classic Rang De Basanti and revealed an interesting behind-the-scenes story. In a new interview with Zoom, Soha shared that the film’s producers were initially so doubtful about its success that they actually asked the cast to return part of their fees.

She recalled, “Nobody anticipated it making the kind of money it did or touching people the way that it did. In fact, when we were promoting the film, the producers called and said, ‘Can you return some of the money we’ve given you? Because we’re not sure this film is going to do well.’ All of us gave money back. We were like, ‘Okay, maybe, sure.’ But that film became a movement. And for me, it was a turning point in my career, something that will always stand out in my journey.”

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Talking about her time filming, Soha added, “We shot for about a year, travelling across India—Punjab, Rajasthan, Delhi, Mumbai. It was a very close-knit crew and cast. We would often wait for hours on set as Binod Pradhan, our cinematographer, took his time, rightly so, to light each shot. Sometimes it took half a day. So we spent a lot of time together. Friendships were formed, and at the time we thought, ‘We’ll be friends forever.’ But now it feels like we haven’t spoken in a lifetime, something I’ve realised just happens over time.”

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