Akshay Kumar recently announced the third installment of the much loved Welcome franchise. On his 56th birthday, he dropped a fun a-cappella version of ‘Welcome To The Jungle’, hyping everyone up. Looks like the film has fallen into trouble. Buzz is that, the shoot of the highly anticipated film has been stopped due to non payment of dues.
According to a report in ETimes, the Federation Of Western Cine Association recently made an appeal to the actors and technicians of Firoz Nadiadwala’s ‘Welcome to the Jungle’ to act upon the producer to pay the balance amount of filmmaker Anees Bazmee, whose cheques have bounced.
Reportedly, a non cooperation was also issued against Firoz Nadiadwala by the FWICE three years back. The organisation has also written to all the actors of Welcome 3 including Akshay Kumar and Disha Patani to not shoot, unless Firoz Nadiadwala clears the pending dues to the technicians of Welcome 2.
BN Tiwari, President of FWICE told ETimes, “We have informed all the actors of the film, including Akshay Kumar and Disha Patni, that the federation has issued a non- cooperation on Firoz Nadiadwala for defaulting payments, and that they should not shoot for the film unless pending dues of Rs 2 crore is cleared for the technicians. Firoz Nadiadwala had paid the technicians of ‘Welcome 2’ in 2015 and the amount was about Rs 4 crore, which was later reduced to Rs 2 crore. However, Nadiadwala stopped payment of the cheque after we deposited it.”
He added, “We issued non-cooperation in 2015, but will implement it now, as he has finally begun work on his next film and we will not allow him to shoot it till the payment is cleared.”
Earlier last week, Akshay Kumar took to his Instagram handle and shared a clip, in which we see the entire cast of the film consisting of the actor himself as well as Paresh Rawal, Disha Patani, Jacqueline Fernandez, Arshad Warsi, Sanjay Dutt, Suniel Shetty, Johnny Lever, Shreyas Talpade, Tusshar Kapoor and others singing a peppy revised version of the title song of Welcome, but with a twist. Dressed in camo uniforms, the cast grooves with the song and Mika Singh, Daler Mehndi chimes in with ‘Tunak Tunak Tun’. Sharing the promo, Akshay Kumar wrote in the caption, “Khud ko aur aap sab ko ek birthday gift diya hai aaj. If you like it and say thanks, I’d say Welcome(3) ???? #WelcomeToTheJungle In cinemas, Christmas – 20th December, 2024. #Welcome3.”
Of the 3 films under Firoz Nadiadwala’s banner, Welcome might be the first to take off as the script is ready a while back. The filmmaker is planning to bring a spin to the narrative of this comic caper by getting Sanjay Dutt and Arshad to play the notorious gangsters – Majnu and Uday. The duo have already shown their chemistry as Munna and Circuit and now it will be time to explore the dimension in a new franchise,” a source cited by the entertainment portal PinkVilla claimed earlier.
Welcome Back To The Jungle will be helmed by Ahmed Khan, produced by Feroz Nadiadwala, Jyoti Deshpande. It is slated to release during Christmas, on December 25, 2024.
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