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Sairat box office success: Lead actors Rinku Rajguru and Akash Thosar get Rs 5 crore bonus fee! Know more about them!

What an astonishing success story! Akash, 22, is a wrestler and hails from Solapur, while Rinku is 15 and studying in the ninth grade in school!

Updated: May 20, 2016 1:35 PM IST

By Shweta Parande

Sairat box office success: Lead actors Rinku Rajguru and Akash Thosar get Rs 5 crore bonus fee! Know more about them!

The box office success of Marathi film Sairat continues, with over Rs 60 crore collections until now. The movie that released on April 29, 2016, in theatres across India with English subtitles, has been a rage ever since. It has become the all-time blockbuster of Marathi cinema! Sairat is directed by Nagraj Manjule, who won the National Film Award for his film Fandry. The lead actors of SairatRinku Rajguru and Akash Thosar – are rank newcomers. But the audience has loved their innocent Romeo & Juliet depiction so much that the film is still running in theatres in Maharashtra with houseful boards in spite of major Hindi and Hollywood releases! (ALSO READ: Sairat movie review: Another gem from Nagraj Manjule; newcomer Rinku Rajguru is impressive)

As a result of the superb success of the movie, Nitin Keni of EsselVision, the co-producer of Sairat, has announced a bonus for the cast and crew. According to Mumbai Mirror, Rinku and Akash are to get a Rs 5 crore bonus each for their performance! Their initial fee was only Rs 4 lakh each.

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Know about Akash Thosar and Rinku Rajguru

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What an astonishing success story! Akash, 22, is a wrestler and hails from Solapur. The director spotted him at the Jeur railway station and offered him the role on the condition that he would lose weight.

Rinku, all of 15, is still in school, studying in the ninth grade! The girl loves to dance and that is how she was offered the role. She hails from Akluj in Solapur as well. Rinku has already been honoured with a Special Mention at the recently held National Film Awards for 2015. (ALSO READ: Sairat: Aamir Khan’s newfound love for Marathi cinema continues with this Nagraj Manjule film! Actor shocked with the ending!)

With music by Ajay-Atul and the retelling of a classic love story, we are sure Sairat will break many more records and win many more awards! Have you seen it yet?

(Photos courtesy: Marathistars.com and Sairat publicity still.)

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