Priyanka Chopra’s cousin Meera gets lucky

The cast and crew members of Guddu ki Girlfriend were in for a downright scary experience when the hotel, they were staying at, decided to turn the tables and make it into a hostage situation. While the lead actors Meera Chopra and Tanuj Virwani were lucky enough to be staying away in a different hotel, the rest of the team, unfortunately, had to bear the brunt of the producer running out of money.

It so happened that around 150 cast and crew members were held hostage in Benaras because the producer Illyas Guddu claimed he had run out of funds for the film shoot. Amongst the trapped were Freddy Daruwala and Sukesh Anand with the latter even mentioning that he doubts he would be completing the shoot.

Talking to ETimes, Sukesh said, “I don’t think I’ll complete the film. We had a harrowing time. The hotel did not let us ago. I reached out to Nupur Alankar (senior actress of TV industry who is known to help anybody in distress) and she put out a tweet, tagging Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath.”

As per him, eight people have still not been given permission to leave which he deems as ‘understandable’. “Eight people, however, have still not been given permission by the hotel to leave the premises. That’s understandable as they are the ones who were at the helm there. Why were we actors, technicians etc locked up? We were certainly not responsible for the producer having run out of money,” was his reasoning.

When asked about the situation, Tanuj did not have much to say but the actor confirmed that he and Meera were away from the event. “I have heard about this, there has been some ruckus out there, but Meera and I have come away. I am not aware of the details, though,” he shared.

The producer and makers of the film are yet to comment on the issue!