Cine workers are demanding higher wages on strike and, now, 75 percent of TV show shoots are reportedly being affected, according to famed Bollywood producer, Mukesh Bhatt. Bhatt is currently under attack from strike organizers for releasing a press statement alleging the total halt of TV show production, which strike organizers seem to be downplaying. Vigilance Committee head, Prem Singh Thakur, says: "First of all, we are not disrupting any shooting. We only tell the cine workers not to cooperate with the television program producers if they refuse to pay the new wages decided as per the [agreement] signed October 3rd."

Thakur says that TV producers are sticking to the raised wage agreement for cine workers and claims that Mukesh Bhatt's allegations are simply not so. "[Bhatt] is telling a lie to discredit the stand taken by the Federation that the cine workers will not cooperate with the producers who do not pay the revised wages," Thakur explains. "Can it be called disruption of shooting?" Whichever story is to be believed, let's hope the cine workers and producers can play nice and keep bringing us the TV shows we love so dearly! Five words come to mind: Pay up or shut up!