Bosco Martis and Parvez Shaikh get their dues after 5 months of Bade Miyan Chote Miyan release

The ongoing controversy between Vashu Bhagnani's Pooja Entertainment and Filmmaker Ali Abbas Zafar seems to never ending. While the Bhagnanis have filed a complaint against the director for siphoning of funds. The filmmaker and other crew members have approached FWICE ( Federation of Western Cine Employees) for non payment of their dues.

Ever since the accusations against director Ali Abbas Zafar has come out many crew members came out and shared their story. The first one to share was actor Khalid, who played a small part in the actioner. According to the actor and many others, the crew members' payments were paid off by Ali Abbas Zafar, who recently received subsidy money from Abu Dhabi.

Leading action director, Parvez Shaikh, who has worked on films like War, Bang Bang, Sultan, Brahmastra, Fighter, Tiger 3, Prithviraj, Bharat, and OMG among others, has taken to social media to support director, Ali Abbas Zafar. He wrote, “I read an article about false accusations and maligning of a reputed director/producer by Pooja Films. The truth is the other way around. I was the action director of the film BMCM and the accusations on AAZ Films are baseless. I have been working with Ali Abbas Zafar sir since 2014 and never faced any issues with the payments and they are people of their word when it comes to business.”

He also continued ,"Finally, after the subsidy from Adu Dhabi for BMCM was released, I would like to thank Ali Abbas Zafar and Himanshu Mehra who cleared all my wages and payments for the hardworking stunt men through the movie stunt artist association.” 

He even elaborated,"The expensive equipment we took to London for the shooting of BMCM are still being held in the studio of Pooja Films in Luton and we still have not gotten any response about when we are going to get them back. We have worked on another project named Eagle with Pooja Films in India and to date, we have not received payments for worker wages and equipment."

Apart from the two, 10 other crew members took to Instagram to thank Ali Abbas Zafar and the team for clearing their payments. They include – Khalid (Actor), Shaurya Kohli (AD), Diksha Pradhan (AD), Saurabh Kumar (Associate Director), Shahab (Actor), Anurag Pandey (Associate Editor), Makvika Bajaj (Costume Designer), Rohed Khan (Actor) and Marcin Laskawiec (DOP). We hear top choreographer, Bosco Martis, has also been paid off from Abu Dhabi subsidy, alongside 90 more crew members.

Bade Miyan Chote Miyan starred Akshay Kumar, Sonakshi Sinha, Tiger Shroff,Manushi Chillar,Alaya F in pivotal roles. The movie was a box office flop and released on Eid 2024.