The producers of Kabir Khan’s exhilarating sports drama ’83 are a worried lot. No matter how big a blockbuster it will turn out to be– and it promises to be the biggest hit of 2021 — it can never make back its investment. During an off-the-record, heart-to-heart chat with Subhash K Jha, one of the producers confesses, “The final budget of the film is Rs 270 crore (Rs 2.7 billion), which makes it a costlier film than Baahubali.” “Our basic production cost was Rs 210 crore (Rs 2.1 billion). That included the payment for the cricketers — we paid each one of them between Rs 3 crore and Rs 7 crores while they were active. And then there was our investment in filming equipment like Red cameras along with more than 750 top-of-theline DSLR cameras that we imported from abroad
2022-01-13