15 years into making and produced at a staggering cost of Rs 1.5 crore, film wizard K. Asif‘s Magnum Opus Mughal-e-Azam is Indian Cinema’s First Most Expensive Film! The exorbitant expense of Mughal-e-Azam can be gauged from the fact that Mughal-e-Azam‘s budget was almost 5 times more of filmmaker Mehboob Khan‘s most ambitious film Aan (1952). Readers would be surprised…
Remember the song Ghar aaya mera pardesi….. from Raj Kapoor‘s cult classic film Awaara (1951). The song and the dance sequence shot as a ‘dream sequence’ by film director Raj Kapoor is a milestone in the annals of Indian cinema. The reason why the sequence is regarded as the most iconic scenes in Indian cinema is because it is the…
Ramesh Sippy‘s Sholay is regarded as one of the landmark films in Indian cinema. The film revolutionized technical brilliance in Indian cinema like reviving the 70 MM format, Stereophonic sounds, Technicolor and introducing Hollywood style cinematography. The other vital contribution of Sholay to film technology was giving an impetus to the style of ‘Flashback’ the brilliant technique of disrupting the…
Entertainment as per the Seventh Schedule of the Constitution of India is taxable!! The Entertainment Tax is charged to increase the revenue source for the state governments. Thus the tax differs from state to state. For instance, in Maharashtra, the Entertainment Tax is 45% and for the regional Marathi film, the Entertainment Tax is Zero. The Maximum Entertainment Tax is…
With Ghajini, Aamir Khan started the trend of Rs 100 Crore Club in 2008. Further, in 2009, Aamir made another milestone of starting Rs 200 Crore Club with his film 3 Idiots! Again in 2015, Aamir began a new club of Rs 500 Crore with the smashing success of Dhoom 3 and in 2016 Aamir Khan did the unbelievable of…
Never in the history of Indian cinema, a region film created the kind of box office collection that SS Rajamouli‘s magnum opus Telugu film Baahubali 2: The Conclusion created at the box-office in India. The film shattered all the box-office records by amassing an unbelievable Rs 1000 Crore thus becoming the highest-grossing Indian film worldwide!! What’s more, what all the…
Kudos to Aamir Khan for nor only being Mr. Perfectionist in the acting department but the actor deserves a pat on his back for his brilliant sense for meticulous selection of movies that always hits the bull’s eye. After starting the trend of Rs 100 crore with his film Ghajini (2008) Aamir Khan created the new distinction of Rs 500…
With the end of the millennium ended the trend of a film’s success measured by a film running consecutively in a single theatre. The introduction of multiplexes started the new trend of measuring a film success. A film now was declared a hit if it collected Rs 100 crore at the box-office in less number of days at cinema houses.…
Entered Guinness World Records for the longest-running film in a cinema hall! Yash Raj Films Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge (DDLJ) has completed 24 years and seems to be heading to achieve the milestone of running 25 years run at Mumbai’s iconic Maratha Mandir Cinema hall! To date, Maratha Mandir has the distinction of screening Dilip Kumar‘s Mughal-E-Azam (1960) which ran…
India’s First film that went beyond 200 weeks run and broke all box office records was Ramesh Sippy‘s Sholay (1975). Made on a large scale Sholay had a galaxy of stars Amitabh Bachchan, Dharmendra, Sanjeev Kumar, Amjad Khan, Hema Malini, Jaya Bachchan, Asrani, Jagdeep, etc. The film was written by top writers of the 70’s Salim Javed and boosted of…
