Bhumi Pednekkar reveals a large portion of Lady Killer script was never shot: ‘I was finished’

Bhumi Pednekkar

Bhumi Pednekkar is currently riding high on the success of her latest release, Daldal. The actress, who has witnessed an illustrious career so far and continues to taste the sweetness of success, has had one film in her career which is written in history for the wrong reasons.

Bhumi starred in the 2023 film Lady Killer alongside Arjun Kapoor, which turned out to be a huge box office bomb. In fact, it is often touted as one of the biggest box-office bombs in the history of Indian cinema. When she appeared on Sit with Hitlist, she got candid about the failure of the film and made some shocking revelations.

Bhumi Pednekkar recalls a lot of Lady Killer was never shot

Bhumi recalls the first time she faced failure was in 2023, eight years after getting into the showbiz, where she says, "A film of mine wasn't accepted." Notably, the film grossed only Rs 38,000 on its opening day and sold just 293 tickets nationwide.

Talking of the Lady Killer, Bhumi shares, "The script that we read was a complete script, and there was a large part of that film that wasn't shot, that was put out. I wish I knew better because if I were somebody that belonged to these systems, I would have figured out a way, manoeuvred it better."

Recalling being in shock, she says, "I was in shock. I was like, ‘What is going on?' We did not shoot about 35 per cent of the film. It's such a big mystery to me that I was suddenly just told that the film's being released."

Bhumi shares they were told about budget constraints, saying, "I think what I was told was that the film did go over budget, and it was kind of stretched out, and it went on for a long. But I don't know where do we fit in this equation because none of those things happen because of any of the actors."

Bhumi Pednekkar calls it a dark period of her life

The actress further shares how it was a difficult phase of her life to get over the failure. She says, "It was a very heartbreaking time in my life. I was finished. I just didn't know how to recover from that. Because how are you going to go? Who are you going to?"

Talking about whose fault the failure could possibly be, Bhumi shared, "It was just nobody's fault. It's such a khichdi in my mind. But it was a decision that the makers took at that point because they felt that was the right thing to do. It was also a time when we had not really recovered as an industry from everything we went through during COVID. These are producers who were in debt and had lost so much money. It was just a mess. "

The actress concludes, "I'm anyway just going to take it as a dark period of my life, and I've moved on."