{"id":2119869,"date":"2025-10-28T05:45:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T05:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2119869"},"modified":"2025-10-28T05:45:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T05:45:07","slug":"its-a-nightmare-to-go-through-says-designer-sandeep-khosla-as-he-slams-how-unapproachable-bollywood-stars-are-now-due-to-their-entourage-weve-created-monsters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/its-a-nightmare-to-go-through-says-designer-sandeep-khosla-as-he-slams-how-unapproachable-bollywood-stars-are-now-due-to-their-entourage-weve-created-monsters\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;It&#8217;s a nightmare to go through&#8230;,&#8217; says designer Sandeep Khosla as he slams how unapproachable Bollywood stars are now due to their entourage: &#8216;We&#8217;ve created monsters&#8217; |"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"MwN2O\">\n<div class=\"vdo_embedd\">\n<div class=\"T22zO\">\n<div class=\"D3Wk1\" data-ua-type=\"1\" onclick=\"stpPgtnAndPrvntDefault(event)\">\n<div class=\"zPaFh\">\n<div class=\"wJnIp\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.toiimg.com\/thumb\/msid-124865067,imgsize-57848,width-400,resizemode-4\/abu-jaani-sandeep.jpg\" alt=\"'It's a nightmare to go through...,' says designer Sandeep Khosla as he slams how unapproachable Bollywood stars are now due to their entourage: 'We've created monsters'\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>In recent times, the entourage costs of Bollywood stars has become a huge topic of discussion. But the concern isn&#8217;t just over the financial burden it brings on the producers and the industry, however, now it raises another issue which is inaccessibility of stars. While debates over celebrities\u2019 rising entourage expenses have been ongoing, renowned designer Sandeep Khosla, one half of the celebrated duo Abu Jani\u2013Sandeep Khosla, has now spoken out against how unapproachable actors have become.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"3\"\/>In a candid chat with Fashionably Pernia, Khosla expressed his frustration, saying, \u201cIn India, it\u2019s a nightmare because you have to go through 25 people, the agency, the stylist, the stylist\u2019s stylist, the third generation, the fifth person, the seventh person to get to an Indian celebrity. Till that time you are like bye-bye, thank you very much.&#8221;<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"7\"\/>When the interviewer remarked that today\u2019s stars travel with an entire \u201cvillage,\u201d Khosla shared a startling anecdote involving a popular actress. He recalled hearing from an air hostess that the actress\u2019s behaviour leaves flight attendants nervous.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"9\"\/>\u201cI was in a friend\u2019s private jet, and the air hostess was telling us wonderful anecdotes about Indian film stars. She said there is a particular heroine, when she boards a flight, we are actually petrified because she doesn\u2019t wish us, she doesn\u2019t look us in the eye, and if we ask her for water, she will not even acknowledge our presence and her secretary or the person she is with will say \u2018yes, she will have water\u2019 and then we will serve the water to the secretary, and she\/he will serve the water to her. We have created these monsters,&#8221; he said.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"15\"\/>As many producers and industry insiders have reflected on this, filmmaker Karan Johar also recently voiced his disapproval, clarifying that his concern isn\u2019t financial but moral.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"17\"\/>\u201cI have an ethical problem with entourages, not a financial one. We set a fixed <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/business\/budget\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\">budget<\/a> for such needs. But if an actor wants anything beyond that, be it a personal trainer or specific dietary requirements, they should cover the cost themselves. 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