Kangana Ranaut seems to have created her own parallel universe in Bollywood. With the Karan Johars and the Hrithik Roshan camps not working with her, she has not just done a Manikarnika, but is now looking south of the Vindhyas. What is shocking or rather surprising that since the film on the life of the actress turned chief minister Jayalalitha is being made in two languages - Jaya in Hindi and Thalaivi in Tamil, Kangana has billed the makers a sum of Rs 24 crore for both the languages and she will be paid so.
“Normally you do not have a Bollywood star playing the lead in a south film. But this is a first, when a Hindi actress is playing the lead role in a south film with other south and Hindi actors around her. Hence it is also a significant development. If it works, it could completely blur the lines between Bollywood and regional cinema,” says a trade source.
Interestingly, Kangana’s fee is way behind what the biggest male Bollywood stars like Shah Rukh Khan, Salman Khan or Akshay Kumar ask for a movie in Hindi. Akshay charges Rs 45 crore for a film where he takes no profits or comes on board as a producer. And if one compares her fee with Scarlett Johansson’s fee of 40.5 million USD for the Avengers franchise, she is still at 3.5 million USD in pre-tax earnings.
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