Brahmastra made on a budget ‘way over’ Rs. 300 crores - Page 4

Originally posted by: FlyOnTheWall

Nahi Bhai

1st movie ka hi baat ho raha hai yaha

Aur 2nd ka kuchh kaam start nahi hua hai, uska budget alag hoga

100 crore ke aas pas to JJJ banayi thi

Chill, 1st part's budget will be more clear when film will release.

These are all speculations.

Pre pandemic 300+ budget recovery was possible but now it will be really hard. No wonder they have been promoting the movie so aggressively.

Originally posted by: FlyOnTheWall

Lekin Indian theater scenario me uska recovery possible hai kya?

I don’t think so. But assuming Star and Disney are world wide distributors then world wide collections will probably count. Still, recovering 600cr is an extremely difficult task for a movie that doesn’t seem to have clicked so far except for inspiring some social media memes.

Originally posted by: semantic.error

Usually these investments are made keeping in mind that the first movie might not turn a profit, but the subsequent sequels will, lower marketing, quicker turn-around, higher-gross and scale economies. Of course, Brahmastra doesn't look like it will get a sequel now but I am talking in the sense of when they are initially projected and green-lit. It was a promising prospect in 2015 or so.

I think KJo got caught in his own desire to be the production house that presents this massive never seen before kind of movie and experience to India, which on its own is very understandable and even admirable. But how did he not realize that Ayan probably was too inexperienced for this kind of movie? Also how did he convince Disney to invest in this with an inexperienced director?

Anyway, if the movie opens badly and is declared a flop on day one then game over. But if it opens well and sustains well through the weekend I have no doubt that Dharma’s marketing team will find ways to declare it a hit including “lowering the budget.” Realistically though recovering a budget of over 500cr seems extremely difficult.

Originally posted by: IAmLuvBolly

I think KJo got caught in his own desire to be the production house that presents this massive never seen before kind of movie and experience to India, which on its own is very understandable and even admirable. But how did he not realize that Ayan probably was too inexperienced for this kind of movie? Also how did he convince Disney to invest in this with an inexperienced director?

Anyway, if the movie opens badly and is declared a flop on day one then game over. But if it opens well and sustains well through the weekend I have no doubt that Dharma’s marketing team will find ways to declare it a hit including “lowering the budget.” Realistically though recovering a budget of over 500cr seems extremely difficult.

Disney just got stuck with it after the merger. And it was way too expensive to dump on Hotstar unlike the rest of them. Usually with investments these large, it is better to release and recoup whatever you can.

Originally posted by: FlyOnTheWall

Lekin itna paisa laga kaha hoga? Wo shot to acche liya nahi hai

Rrr ke ek din ke action shooting ke liye 1 crore ke aas pas kharcha hota tha

Utna bada film to lag nahi raha ye

Movie went into preproduction in 2017. Ranbir and Alia started rehearsals in summer of 2017 and at some point in 2017 they also went to London with Ayan and met up with some people. An Israeli martial artist was flown to India to teach Ranbir the hand movement arts (We see it in the new song teaser when Ranbir throws fire balls around) and well, I’m sure he didn’t fly and stay there on his own expense, though I don’t think he stayed in Mumbai long. So a lot was going on in 2017 itself. Shooting started in 2018. VFX is done by outside companies who have Oscar winning work on their resumes. That can’t be cheap. Multiple delays. Reshoots, which if rumors are true about 60% was reshot. On top of all this the pandemic and two years delay. The fact that nothing about this so far looks like it cost 600cr speaks of Ayan’s inexperience and perhaps even Kjo’s mismanagement. As the producer maybe he should have had more control over what Ayan was doing.

On a side note about Ayan's inexperience. It is not uncommon for directors for Fox/Disney to jump from small indie projects that cost a few million to a 200-300 million budget tentpole. You complement that by getting others with more experience onboard as producers. It's the producer bit that is missing here.

Originally posted by: semantic.error

Brahmastra was the star-jewel of the 9 film deal with Fox. It made sense at the time. Ayan was riding high off YJHD, Dharma was at its peak and Bombay Velvet had not yet released. And Deepika was initially circling the project. If it had met its initial release date, I think it could have been a solid hit.

Disney just got stuck with it after the merger. And it was way too expensive to dump on Hotstar unlike the rest of them. Usually with investments these large, it is better to release and recoup whatever you can.

Yes I had heard about Deepika being one of the choices as well as Katrina. Apparently Alia was picked because of her young age and young face. The entire trilogy was supposed to take 10 years and the idea was by the third one Alia would still be young. I suppose it’s someone’s karma that the first one alone took 8 years and now Ranbir is mocked for being a 40 year old naujawaan prancing around and playing with fire 🤷🏽‍♀️