"We can't understand why Bipasha left the shoot suddenly" - Bunty Walia 
By Subhash K. Jha, November 10, 2008 - 14:13 IST
'Chaotic' is how producer Bunty Walia describes the situation at Kashmir after Bipasha's abrupt departure on Saturday, just hours before Sanjay Dutt landed in Srinagar to start shooting with her.
On Sunday the cast and crew of Lamhaa seemed crushed by the latest blow. "They don't know what hit them. The morale in our unit is pretty low. Sanjay Dutt who landed here to start work immediately is suddenly at a loose end. He's taking an impromptu holiday right now," informed producer Bunty Walia.
The unit now plans to move to Manali from Srinagar where the topography is similar, though not the same. "We're going to shoot only the action scenes there," informs director Rahul Dholakia. "We don't know what happened with Bipasha because she has told us nothing. She seemed fine in the morning. Suddenly we heard she had left. I suppose a film on the making of Lamhaa would be as interesting as the film itself, though we've no footage of Bipasha leaving Srinagar."
Happily there's no bitterness about her abrupt departure. Says Walia, "We can't understand what happened, and why she left suddenly when Friday onwards things were going smoothly. I also can't understand how she managed to get back to the hotel from the location in Anant Naag, pack all her luggage and leave in fifteen minutes. But we're sure she had her reasons. And we're fully convinced she'll join us in Manali where we're now going to shoot the action scenes."
The unit also plans return to Srinagar from 4th January to 11th January to shoot vital scenes after the main shooting happens on a sets in Film City in Mumbai. "I'm sure Bipasha would return to Srinagar in January and complete the unfinished work," Bunty Walia ends hopefully.
In the meanwhile, Sanjay Dutt left for Delhi and will be proceeding to shoot in Manali on 12th November.
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