At the same time, Bhushan’s wife Divya Kumar, fresh from the fluke success of her film Yaariyan, was mounting her next film and was struggling to cast some decent actors. Then came the news that she had signed Pulkit and Yami for the film and my dates were allocated to her film’s schedule. Same actors, same genre, same production house, same music directors, same locations and same marketing people. How was this possible? When I confronted Bhushan, he told me without any guilt that it was his wife’s birthday and she asked for her film to be released before mine on Valentine’s Day and he
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