The film industry takes Abhilasha Ojha into confidence about the reasons it is celebrating talent over stardom in 2007.
When Sagar Ballary first met Sunil Doshi, he had a script ready for a television film. The script, Doshi felt, had great potential — it revolved around an idiot invited to dinner by an arrogant music company honcho — and didn’t deserve shoddy treatment.
The initial budget of the film, after Ballary failed to garner takers (read producers), was Rs 35 lakh but Doshi was willing to push the envelope and, after studying the finances of the film, they arrived at the figure of Rs 51-55 lakh.
Doshi’s boutique film production company, Handmade Films, found Ballary’s script promising; somewhere Ballary had faith in his own script; and soon enough both began working with actors who had been their long-standing friends.
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