Director Rumy Jaffery recalled Amitabh paid for his own chartered plane, for ‘Chehre’

Director Rumy Jaffery recalled Amitabh paid for his own chartered plane, for ‘Chehre’

Director Rumy Jaffery recalled on how Amitabh Bachchan did his film ‘Chehre’ for free and how he also paid for his own travel and accommodation. ‘

Rumy Jaffery acknowledged for being a writer on some iconic movies like ‘Biwi No 1’, ‘Bade Miyan Chote Miyan’, ‘Haseena Maan Jayegi’ among others, has also directed movies like ‘God Tussi Great Ho’ and ‘Life Partner’.

His last film was ‘Chehre’ which featured Amitabh Bachchan, Emraan Hashmi and Rhea Chakraborty.

Rumy recalled an incident on The Ashoke Pandit Show and said that producer Anand Pandit came to tell him that Bachchan’s fees are too high for him. Rumi said, “Anand said, ‘he asked around in the market. What Amit ji has charged in his last film is a little high for me, if we can bring it down a little bit, it will be great but his relationship with him is such that whatever he says, he will have to say yes to him. So you please look into it’.”

The producer and director then decided to visit the Senior Bachchan’s Jalsa residence to talk to him about it. But as soon as they reached his house, they were left shocked. ”
Amitabh Bachchan declared that he had only called them to announce that he would not be charging any money for the film. “

In the same interview he also revealed that Amitabh not only did the film for free, he also paid for his own travel and accomodation. Rumy said, “Amit ji reached Poland in a chartered plane and later Anand bhai told him that Amit ji paid for his own plane and hotel. He didn’t allow production to pay for it,” and added, “he didn’t want to burden the film’s budget.”

News Edit KV Raman