Akshay Kumar leaves for his US tour with Disha, Mouni, Sonam
Despite the cancellation of shows in New Jersey, The Entertainers’ tour remains on track.
The highly anticipated The Entertainers tour featuring Bollywood’s finest stars including Akshay Kumar, Nora Fatehi, Mouni Roy, Disha Patani and Sonam Bajwa is making waves across the US. Fans are excited to watch the performances in multiple cities. However, recent reports suggest that the tour has changed marginally. One of their scheduled shows in New Jersey was canceled at the last minute due to “slow ticket sales”. Despite the cancellation of the show in New Jersey, the tour remains on track.
According to a report in ETimes, Amit Jaitley, the promoter of the New Jersey show, revealed that the recent cancellation was not due to their failure to pay the national promoter as was reported earlier. Instead, sluggish ticket sales resulted in cancellations. Two weeks before the show date, over 5,000 tickets were still available, meaning they would need to sell over 500 tickets per day to sell out and recover their investment. Jaitley attempted to resolve the issue by working with the national promoter and his team from DCA Events, who were managing the tour, and the artists from India. They verbally agreed to reduce the cost of the NJ show to $450,000 (approximately Rs. 3.7 crores). “We immediately sent them an email with the amendment to the contract, but they never replied, nor did they respond to our calls or messages,” he said.
With no other recourse, Jaitley announced the cancellation of the show saying, “We have already shared the report with Ticketmaster for our NJ show. You are welcome to contact our venue, Cure Insurance Arena, and ask them for their response to ticket sales. We have very clearly informed on social media posts that we have not paid the cost of the show to the national promoter, but it is because of this that we had to cancel the show.”
Jaitley further added that the other shows of The Entertainers Tour in Atlanta, Texas, Oakland and Florida are nowhere close to selling out. He added that from examining the current seat maps of shows in other cities, it is clear that the claim by the national promoter and DCA that all other shows are almost sold out is untrue.
The canceled show was originally scheduled to take place on March 4 at the Cure Insurance Arena. Recently, a source close to the tour revealed, “The New Jersey show of The Entertainers Tour was unfortunately called off because local promoter Amit Jaitley of Sai USA INC failed to pay the national promoter. Despite the presence of a large Indian population, which was enthusiastic about the show, it has been canceled due to non-payment by Amit Jaitley.”
Apart from Akshay and female actors, Aparshakti Khurana, Jasleen Royal and Stebin Ben will also be a part of The Entertainers Show. The tour will take place in various US cities including Atlanta, Dallas, Orlando and Oakland. Upcoming tour begins on Saturday, March 3 in Duluth, Georgia Akshay Kumar and other actors.
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