Sonam Kapoor is important for us: Sheetal Talwar: The latest buzz in tinsel town is that Sonam Kapoor’s illness on the sets of “Mausam” cost the producer of the film Rs 1.5 crore. She was hospitalized on Thursday at Kokilaben Dhirubhai Ambani Hospital as she suffered from exhaustion.

Her absence from the sets resulted in a costly affair for the producers of the film as their budget has already exceeded Rs 10 crore. A source stated “It’s actually a loss of three crore. The Mausam team had booked Nitin Desai’s studio in Karjat for three days till April 1. After that, it was booked for an ad shoot.”

The source said further, “Now that the shooting has been cancelled, the producers have no choice but to dismantle the set and build it again, hopefully around April 5.”In the mean time, the producer of the film Sheetal Talwar stated “Sonam’s health is more important than the money the set cost us. Her father told us is not well.”

The producer said further, “The hospitalisation came as a shock. We want her to be well. She’s been working too hard.”She added “We will have to dismantle the set and build it again. Who said making an epic love story would be easy? You have to see set designer Samir Chandra and cinematographer Binod Pradhan’s passion.”

Talwar said further, “We aren’t counting pennies here. God willing, Mausam will immortalise Sonam the way Mughal-e-Azam and Pakeezah immortalised Mudhubala and Meena Kumari.”This is for the second time that the same sequence of Mausam had to be cancelled on account of Sonam’s ill health. The last time she had suffered from typhoid.