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to put in his own cash. After the two flops, producers have been pulling out fast. So if this one goes down, he's broke, done for, _funtoosh_." Gibreel had embarked on a modern--dress remake of the Ramayana story in which the heroes and heroines had become corrupt and evil instead of pure and free from sin. Here was a lecherous, drunken Rama and a flighty Sita; while Ravana, the demon-king, was depicted as an upright and honest man. "Gibreel is playing Ravana," George explained in fascinated horror. "Looks like he's trying deliberately to set up a final confrontation with religious sectarians, knowing he can't win, that he'll be broken into bits." Several members of the cast had already walked off the production, and given lurid interviews accusing Gibreel of "blasphemy", "satanism" and other misdemeanours. His most recent mistress, Pimple Billimoria, was seen on the cover of _Ciné-Blitz_, saying: "It was like kissing the Devil." Gibreel's old problem of suiphurous halitosis had evidently returned with a vengeance.