Actor, Author, Author, and former white house staffer kal penn was the latest guest at express address, a platform for Candid conversations hosted by the Indian express group. During the conversation with Anant Goenka, Executive Director of the Indian Express Group, Kal open up about a time when he faced sent delays on an in -an inn film.
The actor said, “There was a film I did here years ago, not the namesake. Touch you do the film, you know the nobody you over. Said, in good faith, let me just come to India …
Kal penn added how felow bollywood actors warned him that he might not get paid, but he was determined to hold to hold to hold. “And at one point, some of the bollywood actors in the project said, ‘Hey, you know you not going to get paid, right?’ I like, ‘No, no, I am.’ They like, ‘No day, just do, and you’ll get paid.’ I like, ‘No, I am a sag actor, that is our union.’ Screen guild you know? So with, like, three days left to go, I told everybody on set, ‘I’m not coming tomorrow until I get paid.’ And the crew was like, ‘Yesah, good for you.’ And the producers like, ‘Okay.’ So that second-to-lay day, there’s a phone call: ‘sir, your car is ready.’ And ‘no, I don’t get the driver.’ Then, one of the financiers calls: ‘Mr. koi problem hai?‘I am like,’ I just have been paid, so I can ‘come to work.’ We had some strong words after that. He just goes, ‘Okay, just wait in your room. In two hours ‘time, my boy will come.’ I’m like, ‘Okay.’
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Kal humorously described the unexpected way the payment was delivered: “Now, I will say this: as a base rule, no matter where we are in the world, we’re, like, Never on two on something. DOT, a knock on the peephole and can see the child’s head, he literally. I open, and there is a 58-ald tall, wearing a panda on it says he has a brown paper. It. ‘ I like, ‘Do you want to come in?’ He gos, ‘no.’ So closed it, it like what the guy likes, ‘uh, this is true. He gos, ‘Yeah, the other half you’ll receive tomorrow.’ I’m like, ‘Okay.’ So I put the money in the safe, full -expecting it to, like, not be there when I came home from work, fully expecting someone to steal my kidney when I got there. “
Express adda with kal penn
Kal penn concluded by sharing how the situation was finally resolved and how it is contrasting with standard practices in the us “and it was just… fin. had to do. ‘ The next day, I have to go back to the state of all these. Saying that happens regularly here. “
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The express address is an onngoing series of informational interacts hosted by the Indian express group, featuring prominent voices from variable fields. Past Guests Include Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen, External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar, The Dalai Lama, Philanthropist Bill Gates, and Delhi Chief minister Rekha Gupta.