Mumbai,January 13: The spat between Salman Khan and his producer Vijay Galani has turned uglier with Salman pulling out from the promotions of his own movie.
The producers are desperately trying to make Salman agree to attend a parade at Delhi’s Red Fort where Salman is supposed to be chief guest.
Sources say Salman, who is also the scriptwriter of the film, was demanding a few changes in the climax scene which Galani has refused to make. So a miffed Salman has cancelled all promotional activities for the movie to force his producers to toe the line.
“He (Vijay Galani) and I had a few arguments regarding the film. It’s been happening right when we were filming the movie,” Salman said. But things took a turn for the worse when Galani shot down Salman’s ideas to further edit certain portions of the climax.
“Salman felt that in certain scenes Zarine Khan (his heroine) is looking too fat. He asked Galani to edit some of her scenes out to make sure that she looks good on screen. Galani refused, saying that it was an integral portion of the climax. Salman then demanded that being the scriptwriter of the film, he had the right to dictate changes in the film’s script. But all his pleas fell on deaf ears,” says a source.
As a result Salman walked out of the editing studio and declared that he would not be a part of the film’s promotion anymore. The people at the receiving end were of course the companies who had entered into a marketing deal with Salman’s producers. One of them is Dheeraj Gupta who owns a renowned vada pav chain in Mumbai.
“I had reserved two studios, one hundred hoardings and had also called the whole media contingent to introduce Salman as the brand ambassador of my product. I was suddenly told that Salman has a problem with his own movie and has decided not to be a part of the promotional campaigns at all. I have lost more than Rs10 lakh on that day itself. The losses are just increasing,” Gupta rued.
When contacted, Galani admitted that there were some disagreements. “But these minor differences keep on happening in any creative field,” he said.