We have half a dozen of big producers who actually make films with our leading star heroes. One wonders if all these producers are successful because of those big movies or they are just sustaining with those projects. Here’s an interesting take on that.
Insiders say that all the big producers are making big movies only for the sake of ‘fame’ but nothing else. As we could read the trade reports, almost all the big films are loss ventures these days for the kind of money involved in making them, and the revenues they are getting back from the sales. Only some small scale films are actually giving 5-10 crore profits, but big films are incurring a loss of 5-10 crores.
These days, every film is almost touching a production cost of 70-80 crores. On top of that, heroes are taking a share in the profits, thereby pushing the envelope to 100-120 crores of recovery from the sales. And if the box office is forgiving, then some films are getting somewhere around 80-95 crores. By shelling out digital rights and other rights, the makers get to recover a total of 120 crores. But then, if they remove all the expenses, the profit is hardly 5-10 crores only.
When a 20 crore budgeted film also could give that 5 crores profit, why to make a 100 crore film to get similar gains? The answer is simple. Producers will get fame with big films as they will have big directors and big heroes. And they will get money from other ventures. It’s high time that heroes should recheck on their remunerations which saves producers and the film industry.