A film producer laments to his friends saying, “Both the hero and the director of another film are betraying their guru. Instead of supporting him when he is in trouble, both are troubling him even more.”
The situation is that a senior director (who is called a guru here) is making a film, and another film is released on the same day.
The film in competition is set to release in parallel with the film by this veteran director who is in desperate need of a successful comeback.
Observing this, the producer of the lead director’s film called the people close to the lead actor of the other film and expressed that this feels like a ‘guru droham’.
The senior director’s film producer questioned why they chose to release the film on that date, even though they knew it would cause problems, especially since work on the film was not yet completed.
The producer also expressed that both the hero and the director of other films should be indebted to the lead director and help him for the kind of career he gave them.
The producer’s concerns were largely ignored and furthermore, the hero’s friends feel that the lead actor gave his quotes to this senior director during his bad times, with the idea of reviving him. In that way, they say that only the senior director should be indebted to the hero, but not the other way around.
There is a rumor that there was a dispute in the past between the producer who is lamenting here and the director of this other film at a midnight party. Close friends of the producer suggest that this competitive release could be the result of that dispute.
There is generally an unofficial discussion in industry circles about this feeling of “betrayal.”