The stars’ publicity machinery, like much else these days, seems to be going bonkers with cooked-up news about Bollywood stars, most of whom are currently jobless because of the COVID situation.

The problem is, how to keep them in the news when nothing is happening in their careers? Simple! Cook up future assignments that would never happen. In this chain of deception comes the concocted news that Kartik Aryan has been signed by ErosNow for a whopping 70-crore rupee three-film deal.

However sources in the know completely deny this exorbitant pay-scale for Kartik.

“Are they insane to pay that kind of money to any star, even to the biggest of stars, and that too on an OTT platform(Eros Now)? No star, no matter how big will get that kind of money anymore,” says a well-informed source.

All we can say is, nice try.