Sajid Nadiadwala becomes a ray of hope in lightman Ghulam’s life

The Indian film & TV industry has been stalled ever since the lockdown, a lot of shoots have been affected majorly for both, movie and TV soaps. However, the major chunk who have got a hit are the daily wage artists like spot boys, setting team, light men, etc. One such story came into light to filmmaker Sajid Nadiadwala through an online article about Ghulam Sattar a Light-man from the industry had to see his worst days because of lockdown.

Ghulam, aged 54 had to leave industry due to a physical issue which pulled him back from working. Luckily, he recovered from the surgery with ample of struggles and decided to start working back in January only to realize that the pandemic had occurred and lockdown emerged. He was working as a light-man on the TV show “Yeh Rishta Kya Kehlata Hai”. The worker has been going through a very difficult time financially and to such an extent where he doesn't have money even to afford food.

According to a source, "The film - maker had asked his manager to personally look into the matter and when Sattar was called by him, he couldn't hold back his tears. He told his manager how they were struggling on a daily basis for basic needs. Sajid came to an awareness of Sattar's situation, he was baffled as he didn't have money for food and that he would survive people's offerings of food. An amount of Rs. 10,000 was transferred to Sattar on immediate basis. Sattar isn’t the first who Sajid has helped, the filmmaker is taking care of 400 such workers who have been working on his film projects.”

We definitely need more people to come forward and help the needy in this hour of time.

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“Had all the support I needed from Sajid Sir as a producer” - says Chhichhore director Nitesh Tiwari

The trailer for one of the most anticipated movies of the year dropped in yesterday – Chhichhore. Sajid Nadiadwala the producer of the movie shared his views on the movie and this is what he had to say.

“Friendship has been captured well in many Bollywood stories but I believe it is still a lesser explored genre. Chhichhore is youthful yet mature in its text where the story will be a journey, in itself. Nitesh has added his own charm with details to the film that is all about the bond of friendship. Chhichhore was not the first script, Nitesh and I were already discussing 3-4 scripts and one random day while having a regular talk, Nitesh gave a one liner on this story that he was always keen on working and that’s it; we knew this was the subject we wanted to work on and that’s how Chhichhore was born!”

The film maker further told us the insights like, “I think college was the subject that made me nod instantly. It’s something that everyone can easily relate to and it’s also an important part of each one’s life. It was important to establish all the characters and I must say Nitesh has done a really good job with it.”

The film maker on selection of the actors said, “Nitesh had some of them in mind and most of them were the same which even I had in mind. My involvement as a producer was to believe in my director’s thought and that’s what I did.”

Director Nitesh Tiwari had more to add, “Sajid is a very understanding producer. As a director my loyalties are always with the story and I felt that this is the one that needs to be told. I told this to Sajid Sir and he loved the idea and we are here today! I must say I had all the support I needed from him as a producer.”

Looks like Sajid is a director’s producer after all!