Actor Randeep Hooda recalled the difficulties that he experienced while directing his debut film Swatantrya Veer Savarkar, a part of which was shot in the Adaman & Nicobar Islands. He said that he wasn’t pleasant to be around during the tough production, and that he was extremely demanding on set. In an interview, Randeep also recalled that costs escalated drastically because of a rather unexpected turn of events around an airline. He said that because the airline in question shut down operations, flight ticket prices to Port Blair skyrocketed.
Chatting with Bharti Singh and Haarsh Limbachiyaa on their podcast, he was asked if he actually filmed in Port Blair, and the actor replied, “Yes, that’s where I lost my money.” Explaining further, he said, “Go Air shut down when we went down for our recce. The one-way fare to Port Blair became Rs 45,000 or Rs 50,000. And I took between 150 and 200 people there! Flights would operate only twice a week, which meant that I had to pay for lodging and food for everybody who came in. The amount of money I spent there…”
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He said that the inflation has decreased now. In a past interview, Randeep said that he had to sell of his personal properties in Mumbai to pay for the movie, but he recovered the costs eventually. “My father had saved up and bought two or three properties for me in Mumbai, I let go of them and put the money into the movie. I couldn’t stop. This film didn’t have anybody’s support,” he told Ranveer Allahbadia on his podcast. He said in an interview with Bollywood Bubble that the film eventually broke-even. “Thankfully, we have been able to make enough money. We’ve made it back and some more. We are in plus and have managed to break even. I now joke with my dad asking him to buy more properties so that I could sell them for my next film. Agli picture mein kaam ayega (We will mortgage it when I am making my next film),” he said.
In the chat with Bharti and Haarsh, Randeep said that coming from Haryana, he was raised with a ‘socialist’ outlook towards money, and that for the longest time, he looked down on the idea of generating wealth. He said that as a married man with a production business to run, he is in the process of changing this outlook, and is open to all kinds of projects now.
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