Director Hansal Mehta has claimed that producer Naga Vamsi’s hit Telugu film “Lucky Baskar” has borrowed “liberally” from his successful web series “Scam”, while terming the filmmaker as “arrogant”.
Mehta’s allegations came after Vamsi said in a roundtable interview that the Hindi film industry focuses on making films for posh areas of Mumbai like Bandra and Juhu, directing his comments at veteran producer Boney Kapoor.
Reacting to the producer’s comments, Mehta said in an Borrowed liberally from.” The director said he was “happy” that the story of a Hindi series like “Scam” was successfully translated into another language.
“I bring it up because I’m glad that stories travel and that second-language film succeeds in replicating what works for us. Everyone wins. No one is greater than the other. This narrative is destructive. Arrogance is even worse.” he added in his post.
Set in the 1990s, “Lucky Baskar” is the story of a lower-middle-class man (Dulquer Salmaan) who starts getting involved in financial scams after struggling to support his family while battling debt and humiliation. Does.
While the “Scam” franchise has explored the stories of the biggest financial scams in Indian history, the first season is based on the 1992 Indian stock market scam perpetrated by notorious stockbroker Harshad Mehta (Prateik Gandhi). Season two revolves around the real-life story of Abdul Karim Telgi (Gagan Dev Riar), who was involved in the Rs 30,000 crore stamp paper counterfeiting scam of 2003.
During the roundtable, Vamsi also said that ‘Mumbai is not sleeping’ after ‘Pushpa 2: The Rule’ earned over Rs 80 crore at the box office in a single day.
Mehta had earlier posted on
Apart from Mehta, “Pathan” director Siddharth Anand also took a dig at Vamsi.
“Mumbai has always been the city that never sleeps 😉 It’s okay, I guess some people don’t know our real Mumbai! (sic)” Anand said while reposting Mehta’s comments on X.
“And one more thing. I’ve actually only been to both Bandra and Juhu! Just fine,” he said in another post.
Business analyst Sumit Kadel said that ego leads to downfall, as he criticized Vamsi for “insulting” Kapoor.
Responding to Kadel, Vamsi asked the analyst not to jump to conclusions based on one clip.
“You don’t need to teach us how to respect elders, we respect Boney ji more than you guys and there was no disrespect towards Boney ji in that conversation, it was a healthy discussion, me and Boney ji Had a lot of laughs and hugged each other after the interview… so please don’t jump to your own conclusions based on what you saw,” the producer wrote.
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