Mumbai, Director Abhishek Pathak says he was under immense pressure following the sudden exit of Akshaye Khanna from “Drishyam 3”, which forced them to rewrite the part to introduce a new character just days before the shoot.
We signed the agreement and he hugged Abhishek and he was even paid the signing amount for the film. Because a new playground is given and you’ve to make this character stand out, you’ve to take the character two notches up and give a stronger element to it,” he said, but at the same time, it’s fun. Because they have planned their life accordingly.., 2000 or 3000 per day, “Suddenly you put their life at risk. Because you didn’t feel right about something, i think there has to be a certain rule about it where you cannot just step out once you wish.
“For me, there was a different kind of pressure, I cannot say, ‘I can’t do it. It’s so much pressure, stress, I can’t handle it’. “We had narrated the entire script to him and he had liked it. “I didn’t want a new actor coming on board and trying to do what some other actor has done. “So, that becomes too problematic for the producer. The producer might have an option of stopping the shoot but that can affect a lot of people, a lot of crew members.
Pathak said following Khanna’s exit he and his team had to completely rewrite the character at the earliest. Besides directing the movie, he is also the producer and writer on “Drishyam 3”. “Maybe an independent director on the film would have stepped back and said, ‘I can’t do it, I need some time, I might have to push the shoot’. There are actors involved, there’s a set which got constructed,” the director told PTI in an interview. But I told my team, ‘We’ve to do it, otherwise the film will get delayed, there are dates of actors which we’ve and once that goes away, it might get pushed’,” he said. But ahead of the release of “Dhurandhar”, he said he didn’t want to be part of the film via a text message,” Mangat Pathak told PTI last year when the controversy over Khanna’s exit first broke out. So, I told my team, let’s rewrite the character completely and it was challenging. Pathak said actors abruptly leaving a film just before the shoot can disrupt the livelihood of many crew members, who work for Rs. So, it’s more about a solution has to come together, figure out a plan, a law, a rule,” the director said. And it’s not about just a film, it’s about so many livelihoods, it’s problematic,” he said.
