Remember Rajiv Rai? Well, the good looking and seedha son of famous filmmaker Gulshan Rai and a talented director himself has been going through tough times lately.
In the recent past, the man behind the all-time hit Tridev, miraculously escaped an attack on his life by the underworld, when he refused to part with extortion money.
Since then, he lived out of suitcases in hotel rooms in different countries. A constant sense of insecurity and lurking fear were his only companions, apart from wife and ex-actress Sonam, who was herself in the grip of tremendous insecurity.
However, situations improved a bit and the die-hard filmmaker returned to making films again. The film that he is currently making, Pyar Ishq Aur Mohabbat, was progressing smoothly when the filmmaker has been plagued with problems again.
Rai Junior was shooting his film in the beautiful mountains of Bollywood's dreamland, Switzerland. He hired a local man called Jacob Tritten for helping the production in the foreign land. But the man who seemed very friendly and helpful in the first instance soon started giving him trouble.
Sensing further trouble from him, Rai's unit kept him out from all the decisions of the production. Tritten felt insecure and did all he could to create hurdles in the film's shooting. First he canceled the hotel bookings without notice for which advance had been paid. When Rai and his unit reached the hotel with bag and baggage, they were taken aback when the reception told them that there were no bookings in their name.
The Swiss gentleman then prepared an inflated budget for the film's shooting. Things got out of hand when Tritten's son along with his wife went to the hotel room and insulted the unit, including hurling racial comments at them. As if all this wasn't enough, Tritten took to law and filed a suit against Rai.
Rai too did not waste a minute in filing a counter suit and the Swiss went scurrying back to his hole. Though Rai won in the end, the harassment was too much for him to think of repeating Bollywood's dreamland as a location for his films even in the remote future.
