First Bollywood Expensive Movie: Big stars sign expensive films and producers also invest a lot of money in them looking at the star face. When expensive films earn double or triple the budget, it is good but if the film is not able to earn that much, then the producers suffer a huge loss.
If we talk about expensive films, then there are many such films listed in Bollywood, but here we are talking about the first most expensive film of Bollywood which was very expensive according to that era.
Yes, we are talking about the film Mughal-e-Azam which had a very high budget. It is said that the maximum money was spent on setting up the sets of this film. ‘Mughal-e-Azam’ is said to be the most expensive film of Hindi cinema. Let us tell you about the budget, collection and some special things related to this film.
The first most expensive film of Bollywood was ‘Mughal-e-Azam’
According to IMDB, the film Mughal-e-Azam is considered to be the first most expensive film of Hindi cinema. The budget of this film released in 1960 was Rs 1.5 crore. This amount was invested by K Asif alone. According to reports, K Asif had talked to some producers at that time to invest money but no one was ready.
K Asif was confident that ‘Mughal-e-Azam’ would get the love of the audience and the film would earn a lot of money, so he put everything at stake to make the film. K Asif not only handled the production of the film but he also wrote the story of the film and directed it.
In the same report, it was told that 15 to 25 lakh rupees were spent in setting up the set of the film. Including the fees of the actors and other expenses, the total cost of making the film was about 1.5 crore rupees. This was a huge amount in the 60’s.
‘Mughal-e-Azam’ box office collection
According to IMDB, the budget of the film Mughal-e-Azam was Rs 1.5 crore and the film earned many times more. According to Sacnilk, the box office collection of this film was Rs 10.80 crore worldwide. The verdict of the film was an all-time blockbuster.
‘Mughal-e-Azam’ on OTT
The film Mughal-e-Azam was released on 5 August 1960 and was a black and white film which was later released on the colour screen. Till now this film has been re-released several times and every time this film gets the love of the audience.
If you want to watch this film on OTT, then you can watch it for free on Zee5. Let us tell you, this film, directed and produced by K Asif, featured actors like Dilip Kumar, Madhubala, Prithviraj Kapoor, Nigar Sultana, Durga Khote and Ajit in lead roles.