The scuffle on the sets of Siddharth Anand’s Pathan has cautioned the producers against untoward incidents. A very close friend of Aditya Chopra tells me the head honcho has taken very serious note of the incident. "This is something that has never happened before, and that too on the sets of a Shah Rukh Khan starrer. Adi isn’t taking it lightly.He has ordered a probe into the incident,” says the source.
Shah Rukh Khan is said to be specially worried about the women on the set. “We can’t have the men brawling on a set,” the producer’s friend said to me.
It all started when filmmaker Siddharth Anand got into a nasty fight on the sets. According to reports, the shooting was stalled after he got into a heated argument with one of the Assistant Directors. The major brawl led to the shooting getting stalled for a day. It so happened that the assistant director didn’t pay heed to Anand's requests of keeping his phone away. One thing led to the other and the situation spiralled out of hand.
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