Kumar Mangat-Anees Bazmi Fallout

After  the  crippling failure  of his latest comedy Paagalpanti, the  Bollywood entertainment industry  is abuzz  with  rumours of  a noisy fall-out between producer Kumar Mangat and  the Paagalpanti director Anees Bazmi.

Apparently  Mangat blames Anees  entirely for the disaster and has apparently refused to pay Anees his entire remuneration.

A  source in the know spills the beans. “Kumar Mangat was sure he had a  goldmine in his pocket.  Anees Bazmi has delivered big comedy hits in the past  such as Welcome  and No Entry.  Anees had promised  the producer a blockbuster comedy like  the recent  Housefull 4. In fact the entire Paagalpanti team thought it had another Housefull on  its hands.”

Alas, that was  not to be. The failure of Paagalpanti has soured relations between Bazmi and his producer Kumar Mangat to the extent that the latter  has stopped taking Bazmi’s calls.

We do hope  our entertainment  industry would take  a mature view of success and failure as two sides  of  the same  coin.