Overview
- Lalit Parimoo told Siddharth Kannan on Friday that excessive intervention from Saif Ali Khan and Kareena Kapoor was the main reason Sriram Raghavan's 2012 spy film did not work.
- Parimoo said Raghavan had mentioned interference to him at the time and that repeated star-driven changes left the director unable to make the film he wanted.
- Raghavan has previously acknowledged his own errors, saying he misjudged story and structure, allowed the film to run too long, and had limited post-production time to fix it.
- Agent Vinod was released in 2012, was produced under Saif Ali Khan's Illuminati Films, was shot across India and abroad, and is reported to have cost about ₹55–60 crore while earning roughly ₹43 crore in India.
- The renewed claims highlight a common Bollywood tension between star influence and directorial control and could reopen public debate over responsibility for the film's commercial and critical failure since no public rebuttal from the named actors has been reported.