Maayka’s Shilpa given court order to shoot
The public bickering between television starlet Shilpa Shinde (of Maayka fame) and director Rakesh Choudhary (Hari Mirchi, Lal Mirchi) continues.
Not long ago, we reported that Shilpa wasn’t impressed by the antics of Rakesh and accused him of flirting with her. Rakesh, of course, denied this. Now we can write that that the Rakesh-Shilpa duel is being dragged into court.
Rakesh has stated that Shilpa has caused him grave financial losses and he is now mentally tortured. “She has been with Hari Mirchi… for almost two-and-a-half years now. But midway, she signed up another show Maayka. Against the rules of our contract, she allotted them days between 21st and 28th of every month. She would shoot during the day for Hari Mirchi… and in the evening, for Maayka. This carried on for three days after which she got exhausted,” says Rakesh.
“She started neglecting my serial. She didn’t come to work for three days. She SMSed the director at 2 am saying, ‘I have just finished shoot. Have to go for rehearsals. So I will not be able to shoot with you in the day’. All our efforts to contact her went in vain, finally we had to cancel the shoot,” says Rakesh, still angry with the whole episode.
He then approached the Cine Television Artist Association (CINTA). “When they intervened, she told them she would resume shooting. But when we called her, she was wild and refused to give us her dates. CINTA finally warned her about the consequences. So the next day, she came on the sets but was very rude and misbehaved. She refused to do the serial any more. So we went to court restraining her from giving our dates to anybody else,” says the producer.
The court then ruled that Shilpa could not shoot for anybody else during the dates she had already allocated for Hari Mirchi… Because of this Shilpa then came back on the sets, but it has been reported, was unprofessional in her conduct and criticised the director.
“Still she went ahead and shot for Maayka. This was taken as contempt of court and the judge passed an order to attach her property. She has been given two weeks time to appeal now,” says Rakesh who has now replaced Shilpa with TV actress Priya Verma.