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Ranveer Singh’s Cirkus was made by Rohit Shetty to fund his team during lockdown, reveals writer Yunus Sajawal: ‘He will never tell this to anyone...'
In an interview, writer Yunus Sajawal revealed Rohit Shetty made Cirkus with Ranveer Singh to fund the families of his team during lockdown. Read on.
The entire country was affected by the COVID-19 lockdown. Offices and businesses were shut down, and the Hindi film industry was also adversely impacted by the shutdown. Watching his team members unable to work during this period and exhausting their savings, Rohit Shetty decided to make his 2022 film Cirkus with Ranveer Singh. In an interview, writer Yunus Sajawal stated that the filmmaker would never share this with anyone. Read on!
Celebrated writer Yunus Sajawal recently spoke to Digital Commentary about Rohit Shetty’s kindness and affection towards his team. Yunus shared that when the lockdown continued, the release of the filmmaker’s Sooryavanshi had to be paused. Then in April, he called the production to book the popular Mehboob studio for September as he wanted to make an indoor film.
“So, he basically made that film only for his unit,” stated Yunus adding that the Singham Again filmmaker told them that even if he doesn’t work for two years, it’s fine. But what will happen to the people in his unit? Since no one was working and was only exhausting their savings, Shetty wanted to make a studio-based film so that the unit’s families and houses could keep running smoothly.
Having said that, Yunus also divulged on him hiring junior artists and paying everyone on time. “He will never tell this to anyone, he took it on himself accepting the film as a failure,” stated the writer. According to Yunus Sajawal, Rohit used to pay salaries to all the 500 people despite them working in rotations due to the 100-people restriction.
At that time, every junior artist went through checkups and vaccinations and they all were hired for four months and even if the shooting was put on hold, they would be paid, concluded Yunus. Cirkus also starred Ranveer Singh, Pooja Hegde, Jacqueline Fernandez and Varun Sharma.
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