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Akshay to charge 1 crores for a day in Jolly LLB - 2

Akshay Kumar will start the shooting of Jolly LLB 2 in July. Fees of Akshay Kumar for the film will be 42 crores and budget of the film is 62 crores. He will shoot the movie for 42 days, means will take 1 crores for a day. Arshad Warsi played lead role in Jolly LLB, now in the sequel Akshay has replaced him. Director of movie is Subhash Kapoor. However, other actors are not final. Budget of movie is decided as 62 crores, in which Akshay Kumar's fees is 42 crores. This movie is a court room drama, which set will be on court. Movie will be shoot in a single schedule. Akshay has to give 42 days. Saif Ali Khan was also approached for this movie, but Akshay liked the story of the film and he said yes first. Set of the film is not big, so the budget is less. In filmy trend language, such films come in the category of 'Theke'. Akshay has done such films before also, in which he had huge fees and movie's production budget is medium. Farah Khan's Tees Maar Khan, Priyadarshan's Khatta Mitha. Digit of this fees is quite big, but this is his strategy, when his movie does average business or gets flop, then he reduces his fees and contributes in profit or don't take fees and becomes co-producer of the film. Last year, Akshay's Baby did not do great business, so he reduced his fees in next film. In Airlife also he took less fees and bought 70% rights and become co-producer. Airlife was superhit. He balanced all his loss with this film.

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