Looks like Himesh Reshammiya sure knows how to honour friendship! The reason why he walked out of Soham Shah's upcoming film Sher is that Salman's rival Vivek Oberoi had recently joined the cast.
A source was quoted saying that Himesh has decided not to do the music for the film as Vivek had just joined the cast. Apparently, when Himesh was signed, he was told that the film would star Sonu Sood along with Sanjay Dutt.
Himesh holds Sanjay Dutt in high regard and he was doing this film only because Dutt had recommended his name. When Himesh learnt during the shooting schedule of the film in Rajasthan that Vivek had just joined the cast, he wanted to opt out. However, he stuck on only because of Sanjay Dutt.
However, things got worse when Vivek Oberoi was recently quoted saying that Sher is bigger than Tiger, indirectly referring to Salman's latest film Ek Tha Tiger. This is when Himesh walked out of the project without working on the final song. Himesh has always credited Salman for his success in the film industry.
Sanjay Dutt has been busy shooting big-ticket films such as Agneepath, Son Of Sardaar, Zilla Ghaziabad and Sher back to back. Owing to his busy schedule, Dutt hasn't had much time for himself and his family. However, the latest is that he's gone off to Paris for a much-needed break with wife Maanyata and kids, Shahraan and Iqra.
A source from the industry was quoted saying that he has aken a break for some time and so when he got a few days off from the shoot of Sher, he decided to utilise them by taking off to Paris.
Once Dutt will be back from his break, he has to take care of a number of successive releases. Son Of Sardaar and Zilla Ghaziabad are set to hit the screens later this year.
The last one will be Sher, which is directed by Soham Shah.
A couple of days back, we had reported that Sanjay Dutt was the first actor in the industry to learn martial arts and now, it seems that his decades old martial training is coming back to help with him action sequences.
Sources claim that Sanjay Dutt, who had gone to Japan for an year to learn the art of samurai fighting before starting his film career, will be getting his own samurai sword out of the closet for action sequences in his upcoming film Sher.
It seems that when director Soham Shah was briefing the deadly Dutt about a particular action sequence in the film that involved swords, Sanju baba insisted that he be allowed to use his sword and as the actor seemed really excited about getting to use the sword after so many years, Shah immediately agreed.
Apart from Sanjay Dutt, Sher also stars Vivek Oberoi, Humaima Mallik and Karishma Tanna.
