DYK Ankita Lokhande Did Not Charge Fee For Randeep Hooda's Swatantrya Veer Savarkar? Producer Says 'Nobody Wanted...'

Ankita Lokhande Charged No Fee For Her Role In Swatantrya Veer Savarkar

In a conversation with India Today, the producer said, “At the time I got Savarkar, nobody wanted to work with me because I had gone through a lot of media trial. I never told her that nobody wants to work with me. I wanted her to play Yamunabai in Savarkar. She said ‘I have one condition that I am not going to charge for this film. I can never charge any money from you for any role’. I said then you are in all my films.”

Sandeep further added, “When I was working with Mr Bhansali as a CEO and I was co-producing Ram-Leela, Bajirao Mastani, Mary Kom, Gabbar is Back and Rowdy Rathod, since that time I had a friend called Ankita who believed in me.”

“In fact, she and Kangana were among the first people who told me that ‘you should be the director.’ She (Ankita) said that ‘Sandeep jab tum film banana to main hi acting karungi (whenever you make a movie, I'll act in it)’. When I made Safed, I approached her but she couldn't do the film. But whenever I was shooting, we were in touch,” he concluded.