Filmmaker Vivek Agnihotri recently shared that he had to fire a leading Bollywood actor due to a problem with his manager. Agnihotri shared on social media that the decision had to be taken due to the arrogant behavior of the manager. He mentioned that the manager worked for a famous star kid’s talent agency, but did not reveal the name of the actor or the manager.

The incident came to light when casting director Mukesh Chhabra today commented on the large number of people involved in managing actors. The casting director shared on X, “The current state of the film industry: one actor, 200 casting directors and 15,680 managers.”

Agnihotri responded by sharing his experience of letting an actor go because of the manager’s attitude and criticized such middlemen for causing more harm to careers than helping them. She wrote, “I had to fire a lead actor last week because his manager was very arrogant and behaved as if he had the privilege of being like this just because he worked for a ‘big celeb’ star kid talent agency’. Is an employee. These middlemen have ruined more careers than making them. Do a workshop and train these children.”

Here is the tweet:

Agnihotri is currently working on his next film, The Delhi Files, which is expected to begin production this year and release next year. He has said that there will be no big stars in the film, but the focus will be on strong content. The Delhi Files will complete a trilogy along with The Tashkent Files (2019) and The Kashmir Files (2022).Agnihotri has also announced his next project after The Delhi Files, titled Parva, which will be based on the Kannada novel by SL Bhyrappa.