28. Met an old producer of my last film and it was terrible

Today i met the producer of Lasafot. His name is Deepak and he has the same name as my father. I ate him like anything. He was bad when we were together but he is worse now. Talking to him makes me hate myself and wonder why do i go to him. Meeting him is a terrible experience for me personally. For once he will talk about past like he was saint and blame me and others for everything but then moment pretend that he was a victim. He came back after three years and is asking me to complete the film. The film that he snatched away from me and now again wants me to work free for him. I am not going to work for free for him. I don't even want to work for him. I thought earlier that i had become indifferent towards him but it turns out that i hate him still. I don't think that is ever going to go.

I can see him moving towards destruction again and i tried to explain to him like older times not to do it but this time the scenario was different. This time he already thinks that he knows the right path. He feels that he has learned from his mistake but he is still doing the same mistakes. No one can work with him. It is difficult to work with him. He wants to act like boss when he has no quality of a boss. He still talks the same thing that he used to talk three years earlier, he still behaves the same way in which he used to behave earlier but this time he is more confident of his stupidities.

I asked him to pay me three lakh rupees for my work on the film  and he refuses to pay me that amount. He tries to emotionally blackmail me luring to do the film for free. He is spending nearly two lakhs on his office in which nothing happens. He has already lost, as he cites 6 crores in the previous films but he is not ready to invest in one film which is supposedly good.

Then more than that he was telling me that he was a fully committed man who paid everyone every amount. I don't get it. I arrange the whole crew. I beg them not to charge anything. Most didn't, some did. I use my home for shooting. I arrange for cars and other things in the city and suddenly he becomes the man who sacrificed everything for the film.

A man accepts the truth that is on his side. He believes what he wants to believe. He still have lots of complain against me but he won't say it because he feels like i was valuable but he doesn't want to accept it. He won't even acknowledge it. He just wants to transfer his guilt to me.

He is a useless man and there is no use being with him ever. My last decision about him was right. I don't ever need to talk to him. 

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