A producer who let his lead actor pull in expensive technicians for a separate project now says that film is doomed too, after an on-stage jab reportedly split the two men further, according to gossip reported by Filmibeat Tamil.
No names have surfaced yet, but the gossip making the rounds in Kollywood circles this week, first reported by Filmibeat Tamil, describes a producer-actor relationship that has gone sideways fast.
Here's the setup, per the report. The producer needed this particular actor's dates for his own film. To get them, he agreed to "produce" a second, smaller project the actor was pushing, taking on a headache as the price of casting. What was meant to be a modest, low-budget shoot apparently snowballed once the actor started bringing in bigger technicians, and the producer found himself absorbing costs he hadn't planned for. Filmibeat Tamil says he'd already been quietly grumbling about that.
Then came the bit that reportedly broke things open.
According to the same report, the actor has long nursed some jealousy toward a rival "mass" star, and at a recent public event, he allegedly used the opportunity to take unnecessary digs at that actor. The producer, sources cited by Filmibeat Tamil say, was livid that his own lead would pick this moment to start something with a star whose fanbase has been getting the better of the exchange anyway, quietly for now, but decisively.
So the producer reportedly went up on stage himself and made comments aimed at damage control, trying to distance his film from the controversy his actor had just stirred up. Filmibeat Tamil reports that the actor did not take this well and confronted the producer directly once the event wrapped, and that the two have not smoothed things over since. The word doing the rounds is that there's now a real rift between them.
What makes this worth watching beyond the gossip mill is what the producer apparently concluded from it. Per Filmibeat Tamil, he's decided the second film, the one he took on almost as a favour, is more or less written off before it's even finished. The report frames it as the producer telling himself he'll recover the losses some other way, treating this one as the cost of doing business with a star who keeps stirring up trouble that isn't his to stir.
None of this is confirmed by either the actor or the producer, and Filmibeat Tamil's report doesn't identify either man or the rival star by name. Until someone on the record says otherwise, this stays exactly what it is: industry gossip about a film that was already troubled before its release date was even fixed.
Whether the actor or producer respond publicly, and whether the second film even makes it to a release announcement, is the thing to track from here.
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