{"id":898644,"date":"2026-09-17T02:30:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T02:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/898644\/"},"modified":"2026-09-17T02:30:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T02:30:10","slug":"mandakini-reveals-she-wasnt-paid-for-16-17-films-contracts-were-very-informal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/898644\/","title":{"rendered":"Mandakini reveals she wasn’t paid for 16-17 films: \u2018Contracts were very informal\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Veteran actor Mandakini <\/a>has opened up about her early years in the Hindi film industry, recalling the informal and close-knit atmosphere on film sets and revealing that she was never paid for around 16 to 17 films during her career.<\/p>\n

\"MandakiniMandakini spoke about early industry days.’I enjoyed the movies a lot’<\/p>\n

Speaking to ANI in an exclusive interview, Mandakini <\/a>recalled that she enjoyed working with her colleagues and described the atmosphere on film sets as warm, personal and \u201chomely.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI enjoyed the movies a lot. They were all very nice. They were all very cooperative. And it was a fun atmosphere and very homely,\u201d Mandakini recalled.<\/p>\n

Comparing the working environment of that era with the present, the Ram Teri Ganga Maili <\/a>actor said interactions between actors and other members of the film fraternity were much more informal.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe atmosphere used to be very good. Everyone used to eat together, and there was no such thing as asking someone before meeting an actor. Everyone used to sit together, and anyone could go to anyone’s room. It used to feel good and used to feel homely,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n

The actress said the informality also extended to the way films were signed and payments were handled at the time.<\/p>\n

She recalled that contracts were often less complicated, with people sometimes simply asking an actor to sign a film, while payment arrangements were settled later.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn films, their contracts were very informal. People used to say, come on, sign the film. And after that, sometimes you get a payment, sometimes you don’t. That too used to happen,\u201d Mandakini recalled.<\/p>\n

‘There were 16 to 17 movies which I never got paid for’<\/p>\n

She went on to reveal that she occasionally agreed to work on films without charging a fee, particularly when filmmakers or colleagues requested her help for a limited number of days.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey used to request you to do a 15-day work, and I used to say, \u2018Okay, no problem\u2019,\u201d Mandakini said when asked if she had acted for free.<\/p>\n

However, Mandakini revealed that while she eventually received payment for most of her work, there were several films for which she never received any money. \u201cI used to get paid, ultimately, but there were 16 to 17 movies which I never got paid for,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Explaining how such situations arose, the actress said some films were left incomplete or unreleased, while in other cases the final payment was never cleared.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere was a divide between the three films. So, one film was released, and the last two were not released. Or the last payment was not released. So, there were a lot of such cases,\u201d she explained. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Veteran actor Mandakini has opened up about her early years in the Hindi film industry, recalling the informal…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":898645,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[49,48,75,311020,165509,337,311022,311021,112783],"class_list":["post-898644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-film-sets","tag-hindi-film-industry","tag-movies","tag-paid-for-films","tag-ram-teri-ganga-maili","tag-veteran-actor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/898644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=898644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/898644\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/898645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=898644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=898644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=898644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}