Excel Entertainment, is a production company founded by Farhan Akhtar and Ritesh Sidhwani. They are in crisis. The Film Studios Setting & Allied Mazdoor Union (FSSAMU) publicly charged Excel Entertainment on Monday. They were charged with failing to pay the wages owed to 300 daily-wage employees. They were part of the production design team for "Mirzapur 3."
According to sources in Mid-Day, the employees kept working while the web series was filmed. In the letter written by FSSAMU to the media, the employees are required to work longer hours than are permitted. It is against the terms of the labour legislation. According to the complaint they are allegedly not given good food or enough seating on set. The general secretary of FSSAMU, they have already written three letters to Excel Entertainment.
Excel Entertainment also issued a statement. “This is the first time we are being made aware of such a complaint raised by the union. We would like to further [state] that the FSSAMU has not reached out to Excel through letters, e-mails, or phone calls. Excel currently has seven to eight projects under production. None of these projects have any non-payment-related issues. For the past 22 years of us being in the business, we have never come across any non-payment complaints. Excel has a strict payment compliance policy whereby we directly make payments to daily-wage workers and not to any union. We will investigate this matter from our end. We would like to mention that Excel enjoys a stellar reputation in the industry. for treating all collaborators with equal respect and dignity.”
