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‘Bipasha Basu stalled the shoot for three hours over an omelette’: Mika recalls traumatic experience as producer, admits Akshay Kumar warned him

Mika Singh accused Bipasha Basu and Karan Singh Grover of stalling the shoot of his production for three hours, all over an omelette.

Mika Singh says working with Bipasha Basu and Karan Singh Grover was a mistake. (Photo: Mika Singh/Bipasha Basu/Instagram)

Singer Mika Singh made his debut as a producer with the web series Dangerous, starring married couple Bipasha Basu and Karan Singh Grover. But the experience made him second guess his decision. He has spoken often about the difficult time he had with the two actors, and has previously accused them of throwing tantrums on set and making unreasonable demands. In a new interview, Mika recalled how Bipasha brought the shoot to a halt for three hours because she wanted an omelette. “Ek omelette ke peeche pura shoot ruk gaya. Teen ghante ke liye shoot ruk gaya omelette ke peeche (The entire shoot was halted over an omelette for three hours),” he told Shubhankar Mishra on his podcast.

Asked about the production, Mika said, “It was a dangerous experience. The movie starred Bipasha Basu and her husband, Karan Singh Grover. The last time they worked together was in 2013, in a movie called Alone. How was I supposed to know that producers are actually worthless in this business. I thought producers are the big-shots. Now, Akshay Kumar has taught me what a producer really does; they only call actors to set and tell them that the shot is ready.”

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He continued, “In my head, I’m the best producer of Bollywood after Dharma. I’m sitting here, and they have a problem with their omelette on set. Luckily, I had sent my personal chef to be with them, anticipating exactly something like this. I’d told him to placate them if something goes wrong. Bipasha didn’t eat her breakfast and showed up on set. At 11 in the morning, I get a call, ‘Mika, what is happening? This is such a rubbish production’. I was like, ‘What happened?’ She says, ‘Omelette’. I told my guy to make her an omelette.”

Mika said that things went from bad to worse when Karan broke his leg, and insisted upon getting treatment in London. He said, “I’m sitting here, having spent all that money on the production. Then, Karan breaks his leg. He could’ve gotten it treated in India, but he stayed there for three months. It was a childishly simple stunt, and he broke his leg, poor guy. I have no beef with them, but it makes you wonder why certain people aren’t successful. You should never turn your nose at opportunities. You don’t respect success. You think that the producer is your servant. You should worship producers, because you don’t know what’ll happen to you tomorrow.”

Previously, in an interview on the KADAK YouTube channel, the singer said that Bipasha and Karan demanded separate rooms, and refused to perform a kissing scene that was in the script. He said, “I took a team of 50 to London for a month-long schedule. However, it was extended to two months. Karan and Bipasha created a lot of drama. They were a married couple, so I booked a single room for them. But, they were like, ‘No, we need our separate rooms.’ I didn’t understand the logic. They then demanded to moved to a different hotel. We did that as well.”

In an interview with Pinkvilla, Mika said that the drama caused the production’s budget to escalate from Rs 4 crore to Rs 14 crore. “The shoot was set in London, and the budget increased from Rs 4 crore to Rs 14 crore. And the drama created by Bipasha ensured that I would always regret getting into production,” he said.

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