Ameesha Patel takes a dig at female actors for huge entourage costs: ‘Bigger than their day 1 box office collection’
Here's the latest box office buzz making the rounds:
Star Ameesha Patel often takes to her social media account to share her opinions, interact with followers and post updates about her life. On Sunday, the Gadar star responded to a bunch of fan questions candidly. In her latest post, the star did not shy away from questioning the growing trend of actors travelling with large entourages during movie promotions, especially when the expenses are covered by producers.
Adding to this, Ameesha Patel did an AMA session on X. (PTI) What Ameesha shared When a fan asked if stars carrying an extra entourage at the producer's cost was fair, the star responded, “many female actresses are in denial of their stardom. their enterouge during movie promotions which comes at the cost of the producers are bigger then their day 1 collection. hope they have the same enterouge in their regular life minus a producer paying for it.”
Meanwhile, Ameesha did not name any female star from the Hindi movie industry in her post.
Notably, A second fan wanted to know whether the star has signed on a new project. In response, Ameesha shared, “Don’t want to be part of buy one get one free offer films and ₹ 99 ticket price films and that too from day 1 on rollout day. Rather create gadar once in few years then to do RUBBISH filler films and time wil come super soon to create another havoc at the ticket-window.”
As per the latest buzz, Earlier this year in May, Ameesha had criticised the way Indian actors are targeted online and wrote, “Actors here in INDIA are more badly trolled by our own people than Hollywood stars are within their country from their own people, which is so sad! Whether it’s an Indian star’s appearance or attire at big events, they sadly become targets of their own people! Such a shame!”
In further updates, Ameesha was last seen in the 2024 movie Tauba Tera Jalwa. Directed by Akashaditya Lama, the romantic comedy also starred Jatin Khurana and Angela Krislinzki in lead roles. Her last successful movie was Gadar 2 , in which she starred alongside Sunny Deol . The movie was a major box-office success, collecting ₹ 686 crore rupees worldwide. Ameesha reprised her role as Sakina in the movie, directed by Anil Sharma. It also featured Utkarsh Sharma, Simrat Kaur, Manish Wadhwa and Gaurav Chopra in key roles. The star is yet to announce her next project.
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Source: Hindustan Times