The Raja Saab makers react on the legal trouble. Prabhas' The Raja Saab directed by Maruthi landed in a legal trouble when Ivy Entertainment has filed a lawsuit in the Delhi High Court against its co-producer, People Media Factory (PMF), and its directors over alleged contractual breaches related to The Raja Saab.
After a long silence The People Media Factory reacted to the legal tangle. They posted “People Media Factory has disbursed approximately ₹60 crores over the past 12 months towards daily wage workers engaged in BTL/production activities. In addition, around ₹1 crore remains payable in relation to schedules worked during July. This amount of ₹60 crore does not include monthly contract associates who are on monthly remuneration across various crafts, which accounts for an additional ₹30 crores. These contract associates' payments are fully current. Furthermore, this figure excludes the remunerations of key technicians, artists, vendors, VFX teams, and location-related expenses."
It also attacked the self proclaimed Federation and Union Leaders. It said "It is therefore both inaccurate and inappropriate for unrelated individuals or self-proclaimed federation/union leaders to make public statements regarding internal company payments. People Media Factory has no agreements or financial obligations with any federations/unions and consequently holds no dues to them. That said, PMF fully acknowledges the limited pending payments to workers from the July schedule, which were payable at the commencement of the next schedule as per our policy, which is also widely followed in the film industry,"
On the workers dues, PMF said "The delay has occurred due to the unavailability of workers over the past two weeks, due to the sudden strike, and as the next schedule did not commence. Taking into consideration the difficulties being faced by our persons who have worked for us, we have decided to make exception to the policy and make the payments this week,"
It continued "To ensure greater transparency and to eliminate past malpractices of routing payments through representatives, all payments will henceforth be made directly to workers into their bank accounts. PMF will not release funds to intermediaries under any circumstance,"
It went on "Workers with pending dues from the July schedule are requested to follow the below process: Submit their requests and complete the enrolment process with accurate bank details. Ensure the information reaches their respective Executive Producers (EPs) by Monday. Upon verification, payments will be disbursed within the same week. PMF appreciates the cooperation of its teams and looks forward to resuming work with everyone very soon,"
It added “People Media Factory has disbursed ₹60 Cr+ towards daily wage workers in the last 12 months. We stand by every worker and ensure their hard work is rewarded with dignity.”