Pooja Hegde hikes remuneration further!

Pooja Hegde was paid a whopping Rs 1.5 Cr for ‘Valmiki’ for 15 days of work. She has done a role that had just 20 minutes of runtime in the film. Her portion was completed in flat 15 days. She generally charges Rs 1.5 Cr for the entire film that needs more than 50 days of call sheets. But she got such a huge amount as the director Harish Shankar insisted on getting her dates on a priority basis. She is one of the prime reasons for the film’s impressive openings.

With a series of hits and seeing the craze that she has, Pooja is said to have raised the remuneration further. She is now demanding Rs 2 Cr is the talk in the Film Nagar. Filmmakers are not complaining though.

Her mesmerizing beauty makes youngsters’ hearts skip a beat. Hence filmmakers are after her to cast her in their movies. She will next be seen in Trivikram’s ‘Ala Vaikunthapuramlo’, Prabha’s next and Akhil’s new film. 

Jalapathy Gudelli

Jalapathy Gudelli is the editor and chief critic of Telugucinema.com. He has been writing film reviews since 2002. A post-graduate in Journalism from Osmania University, he also studied Film Appreciation at FTII, Pune. He can usually be found on Twitter talking about the film he just watched or updating film news as they develop. You can follow him on Twitter - https://twitter.com/JalapathyG

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